In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to assemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider range of knowledge, expertise, and skills than any single individual is likely to possess. Also, because of the numbers of people involved and the greater resources they possess, a group can work more quickly in response to the task assigned to it and can come up with highly creative solutions to problems and issues. Sometimes these creative solutions come about because a group is more likely to make risky decisions that an individual might not undertake. This is because the group spreads responsibility for a decision to all the members and thus no single individual can be held accountable if the decision turns out to be wrong.
Taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the team. Team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work that is entailed by that decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others. Also, the individual team member has a much better chance to “shine,” to get his or her contributions and ideas not only recognized but recognized as highly significant, because a team’s overall results can be more far-reaching and have greater impact than what might have otherwise been possible for the person to accomplish or contribute working alone.
Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.
(Professor) Now I want to tell you about what one company found when it decided that it would turn over some of its new projects to teams of people, and make the team responsible for planning the projects and getting the work done. After about six months, the company took a look at how well the teams performed. On virtually every team, some members got almost a “free ride” … they didn’t contribute much at all, but if their team did a good job, they nevertheless benefited from the recognition the team got. And what about group members who worked especially well and who provided a lot of insight on problems and issues? Well…the recognition for a job well done went to the group as a whole, no names were named. So it won’t surprise you to learn that when the real contributors were asked how they felt about the group process, their attitude was just the opposite of what the reading predicts. Another finding was that some projects just didn’t move very quickly. Why? Because it took so long to reach consensus…it took many, many meetings to build the agreement among group members about how they would move the project along. On the other hand, there were other instances where one or two people managed to become very influential over what their group did. Sometimes when those influencers said “That will never work” about an idea the group was developing, the idea was quickly dropped instead of being further discussed. And then there was another occasion when a couple influencers convinced the group that a plan of theirs was “highly creative.” And even though some members tried to warn the rest of the group that the project was moving in directions that might not work, they were basically ignored by other group members. Can you guess the ending to *this* story? When the project failed, the blame was placed on all the members of the group.
Directions
You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
Within the lecture, the professor makes several points to refuse the points made in the text.The text describes advantages of being in a group while the lecture contradicts the text by the following reasons.
Firstly, in the text, the author describes the advantage of having group in this way.A group of people have wider range of knowledge ,expertise and skills than any individual can possess.Also,the author in the text states that group can work more quickly. However, in the lecture it' s explained that the time to settle upon an agreement increases as it involves a group of people obeying others' opinions.
Second, in the text, it states that the people who do not contribute for the project are also appreciated as they go with the group.For that point, lecture opposes that it's unfair for the one who has contributed lot of work.They are not considered and they get the same recognition as others in the team.Individual is not identified forever.
Moreover, the lecture points out that there will be people in the team who influence others.For instance, if they say no to an idea, others will agree upon it. When project fails, the blame comes upon the whole team rather than the people who influenced others.
Eve though there are advantages of having a group as described in the text , there are pit falls of having group.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...lls than any individual can possess.Also,the author in the text states that group ca...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, so, while, for instance, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1122.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 228.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92105263158 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88582923847 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67849739878 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552631578947 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 342.0 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 21.2450331126 151% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.1786922481 49.2860985944 161% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.285714286 110.228320801 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.5714285714 21.698381199 150% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.5714285714 7.06452816374 192% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251018625869 0.272083759551 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126769948288 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0491840153174 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137689930943 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0587337069086 0.0443174109184 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 13.3589403974 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 53.8541721854 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.498013245 141% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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