Chapter 7 Assignment – TV Teams
Select a TV Show that depicts an office situation with a clear team environment. (Examples: How To Get Away With Murder, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order, The Office, etc). Select one episode from the show, and use Chapter 7 to answer the following questions in essay/research paper format (tips for formatting an essay can be found here: http://lklivingston.tripod.com/essay/ ). Times New Roman, Size 12, Double Spaced. Upload as a word document file .doc or .docx, no other file formats will be accepted.
Who is the leader of this team? What type of leader are they (informational, interpersonal, or procedural)? What evidence leads you to this conclusion?
What type of decision-making strategies does this group use (devil’s advocate, voting, consensus, other and/or mixture)? How can you tell?
Is peer pressure or groupthink a problem/concern for this group? Why? Remember groupthink and peer pressure are not the same!
*Identify the TV Show by making it the title of your research paper. Essay format – this assignment should include an introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph.
