Tuckman's Work Group Analysis

This essay will be demonstrating aspects of group work by the analysis of a group I am able to reflect my personal experience from. This group is part of my everyday life so I have many interactions that I am able to reflect on and relate to the theory that I am basing my essay on. The theory that I am utilising is Tuckman’s stages of team development.
The group that I will be discussing in my essay is known as a work group. These groups are common now in organisations because what was originally tasks being completed by individuals, they are now being completed by groups (Levine & Moreland, 2008).
This type of group is shaped by the changes in the organisation and the transformations they have gone through in economic, strategic and technological
Using Tuckman’s stages of group development, I will show my progression of integrating into this already formed group. There are implications of already joining an established group. The first initial feeling is of being left out. When you enter a situation where others already know one another this can feel difficult. But this does not make the members of the group bad people. Because an already formed developmental structure is formed, they will likely seek out to interact with one another. In this type of group this helps build relationships (Bonior, 2017). My first interaction with this group was at the start of September 2016. This is when I initially joined the group. Being nervous and cautious I was experiencing Tuckman’s first stage of group development which is Forming. Within forming the initial observation of this experience for me was testing our roles and dependency of the leader. I was trying to understand the orientation of the tasks that were given. Since I felt I had no direction I sought dependency on my group leader D for training, how to complete tasks correctly and to the standard of our organisation (Tuckman,
Cultural diversity is the main legal issues that could have an effect on our group. This is because even though we a joint collaboratively as a group we still identify with our values and express a particular cultural identity and as we understand it, is socially constructed, complex and dynamic. Even though we are a small team, the majority of our group come from a Caucasian background, however two members are from a different cultural background. This can cause some unspoken power struggle as cultural identities are associated in larger society that some cultural identity groups have greater power (Ely & Thomas,