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Buch, Englisch

Levin

Student-Friendly Guide: Successful Teamwork


Buch, Englisch

ISBN: 978-0-335-22619-1
Verlag: Open University Press

This lively, concise and to-the-point guide offers hints and practical sugestions to help you deal with the issues you face when working on a group project. It helps you to understand what goes on in project groups, to move forward in difficult situation, and to draw valuable lessons from the experience.

· How to share out the work

· How to transform your group into a team

· How to take decision

· How to deal with‘free riders’

· How to work constructively with someone you don't like

· How to make good use of your experience when applying for jobs

A must for every student working on a group project, and especially recommended if you have been put into a group, assigned a project and left alone to get on with it!
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, Peter

Fachgebiete

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Contents

Teamwork in universities. READ THIS FIRST!

Part One: Basics and context

What do we mean by ‘a team’?

The benefits of working in a team

Teamwork skills

Academic teamwork and the job market

Part Two: Getting started

Get in your groups

Get to know one another

Formulate your ground rules

The value of ground rules

Mission statements

Communication

Meetings

Taking decisions

Check out your assignment and plan your work

The project brief

The elements of project work

Programmes of work: the ‘critical path’

Allocating tasks

Part Three: How are we doing?

Progress on the project

Progress from ‘group’ to ‘team’

Personal progress

Part Four: Perspectives on team behaviour

Tensions: the task, the team and the individual

Team roles

Management systems and team organization

Team development: forming, storming, norming, performing …

The decision-making process

Negotiation

Cultural traits and differences

Individual traits: ‘cats’ and ‘dogs’

Part Five: Teamwork issues and solutions

The task: getting the work done

Getting help from your teachers

Sharing the work load: ‘social loafing’

The ‘free rider’ problem

Focusing on the task

Taking decisions: ‘risky shift’, ‘group polarization’ and ‘groupthink’

Personal and inter-personal issues

The group that doesn’t storm

Getting your multi-cultural group to ‘bond’

Do teams need leaders?

Dealing with a team member who tries to dominate

Working constructively with someone you don’t like

Finding your place in the team

Part Six: Benefiting from the experience

Getting feedback – including appreciation

Reflection

Learning logs

Reflective reports

Applying for jobs

Polishing up your CV

Being interviewed

Group tests in assessment centres

Notes and references

Further reading

Background and acknowledgments

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