Tuckman's Model Of Teamwork

Executive summary
This paper is a mini research paper conducted during an organizational behavior class teamwork, in Ashesi University College. It tries to provide analysis and comparison of some concepts and theories discussed in class to how the group applied those concepts and theories in achieving their set objective. The concepts and theories that were applied are; Tuckman’s team building model, self-fulfilling prophecies, Affective Events Theory, Stressors, and emotional intelligence. The methods used to gather up the information were observation and interview among group members. The results of the analysis and the comparison show that the application of most of the concepts and theories help the group successful to achieve their set goal while other concepts attempted to draw their work back. Grounded along the results, group members should consider observing each member in the group and give
He came out with four-stage model of team building based on the changes that occur at each stage. The four stages are; forming, storming, norming and performing. This model was published in 1965 and later added the fifth stage, adjourning in 1970. Giving that team members are polite and positive toward the team project at the forming stage, my team members and myself acted the same way at the beginning of the project. For instance, during our maiden meeting, everybody was present on time. Almost all us were excited with the project and ideas were flowing from a person to another person. We did not have a leader; therefore, we wasted a lot of time trying to settle on which topic since team member’s role was not properly defined. I realized that if we had a leader we would not have wasted time at this stage because he would have controlled the meeting and the activities that we did during the forming