Complete thesis - Murdoch University

Although the class sessions within ENG301 proceeded very smoothly, the group dynamicswere very different to those of previous years. One group worked very well together, andhad set themselves high targets to achieve (together). The following are responses from thatgroup to the request to Provide a brief comment on how well your team worked together inthe Performance Review:Simon Our team has worked together very well. We always solved theproblems together and everybody was included into the solving ofthe process. I think we also developed a team spirit during thissemester. Otherwise it would not have been possible that we hadworked on the last project till 4 o’clock in the morning. Alsoit was very interesting to work with people from differentcountries, even though there were some technical languageproblems with our computers. Of course because our differenthome countries and languages we had sometimes small difficultiesin understanding each other. But because of our team spirit italways has been possible to get to know each other of our pointof views. And additionally we could use the different strengthof each team member and use it for everyone’s advantage and thegoal of the group which was the development of ourspecificationVaughn A team environment can be seen to in two dimensions e.g.the task and the social interaction. There was good socialinteraction within our group i.e. we enjoyed working togetherand everyone made sacrifices to get the job done to the standardexpected e.g. working into the morning due to the inability towork on the project earlier due to networking failures. I notedwe where laughing a lot as we worked together, I interpretedthis as another sign we were working together well. We also ateout together during meal breaks in the project e.g. dining outat McDonalds (more times than I had been to McDonalds in mywhole life). I believe that the willingness to share food wheneating out is an indication of how well a team respects/trustseach other.One group member felt more could have been achieved with a tighter group:354