Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Chapter 8: Cultural Diversity in Teams
When I reading this, I never realized that there were "phases in the negotiation process"(pg.250). One that I found to be interesting was Developing Relationships with Others. When I began to work at my job that I have now, I began to work in October of 07, I had to get to know all of my co-workers. One other girl and I were the newest people on the team, the two other student workers already knew each other. When I first began working for the Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program for the County of Santa Cruz, it was something completely new to me. The first couple of weeks we had meetings every Friday where we would all do activities together, which helped us get to know each other better. Just as it mentions in the reading, "for the members of a newly formed intercultural team to develop productive work relationships, they need to be given sufficient time to explore long-term goals..." (pg.250). At my job, we all work as a team, and it does help to "develop productive work relationships." It helps me a lot to feel part of a team because I know that if I ever need help with anything, work related , I have my co-workers to help me out.
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I completely agree with you in the whole new job process and developing relationships within the work place. I recently started a new job about 3 months ago, and it was really hard because everyone else had been there at least a year so they were all well acquainted. The development of relationships with my coworkers however wasn't a process that my work began. I had to start on my own through actually socializing and spending time with my coworkers. Being that we are all fairly young it was easy to find common interests as well as encourage team unity within the workplace through socializing outside or work.
I am a bearer of bad news. The text shares the good and bad of each work team situation, whether work team or cultural diversity in team. I enjoy your story about your development of productive work relationships. Aside from intercultural, there is also the interpersonal aspect of forming a team, that works simultaneously together. In one of the chapters, we learned about how some people try to share in on the accomplishments of others. I want to point out that I think even as a team that members will try to take credits or sabotage other members. So, I hope that you do not run into this as I have recently.
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