DISCUSSION AND WRITING

Discussion #4 – Professor Rogers’s Trial

Read: Critical Thinking “Professor Rogers’s Trial”

That group from Professor Rogers’s class sounds like the team from hell.  This is an example of a group that no one ever wants to be placed in when it comes to college group assignments.  I get it; I’ve been there.  There is a lesson and purpose here though – interdependence, or lack thereof. 

For this discussion, I want you to write about a time when you had to act interdependently.  This means, you had to work in concert with someone else.  This could be in a group project, like Professor Rogers’s class, or at your job or maybe even at home when it comes to family responsibilities.  Some of you may be married or not.  Regardless, we are all expected to work interdependently in some capacity, right?  Discuss it here with the class.

400-word initial response; respond to ONE peer, 300 words in order to get full credit

Writing Assignment #8 – Team Meaningfulness

Read: “Team Interdependence as a Substitute for Empowering Leadership Contribution to Team Meaningfulness and Performance”

It is important for all of us to have some level of meaningfulness in our lives for excellent mental health.  We need that in our personal lives as well as in our professional lives, especially when we are expected to work with others.

For this writing assignment, make sure you read the above-mentioned study (long title, don’t feel like typing it again here).  Just get through it; I know reading studies and looking over the results can be a pain in the behind, but just glaze over the stats.  Make sure, however, you read the literature review parts of the study because you will need that background information for this assignment. 

Argue why team meaningfulness is very important to an individual.  You can use yourself, obviously, as an example.  Pick out why this concept is so important, especially when it comes to our jobs, and then use examples from the reading to back up your claims.