The Importance Of Self Evaluation

To evaluate previous personal & work outcomes is critical in order to enhance future performance. Self reflection after a group-task enables further development in the capabilities needed to effectively manage a team. Thus, this reflective piece will draw on academic sources and theories to advocate insights I personally attained from my involvement in a group to prepare a ‘Job Design’ presentation based on organisational behaviour principles. Additionally, our group’s performance will be critically analysed to provide recommendations for what could have been better and ultimately implications to be taken, moving forward into my working life. Hence, although my group performed well, team dynamics, interdependence of tasks, social support, communication

Moreover, group identification was reinforced when group norms were established with Noah through interpersonal interaction and common history established, heightening the extent to which myself and the others identified themselves with the group (Ashforth & Mael, 1989). Therefore, as I could strongly identify myself with the group, this proved to increase my confidence within my own ability and the other’s ability to perform (Janssen & Huang, 2008). Hence, I experienced communication within the group to be less inhibited compared to previous group experiences and tasks were more efficiently and effectively allocated as group cohesion is strongly correlated to efficiency and effectiveness measures (Festinger, 1950).

Due to each member’s confidence within the group to communicate their strengths and weaknesses, our KSAs were efficiently established to ensure tasks were allocated effectively to maximise personal and work outcomes (Stevens and Campion, 1994). Therefore, our approach to the topic was easy, quick and natural as little disagreement occurred. However, this meant that the validity of our assumptions were not questioned and our creativity in terms of audience engagement was stifled (Kirchmeyer and Cohen, 1992). Thus, our group was not exposed to constructive conflict which can be functional and contribute positively to team performance as it reveals important information through different point of views leading to more alternate solutions to problems being reviewed (Amason, 1996). Hence, our overall performance was negatively impacted by our homogeneous group as it resulted in a lack of debate due to little