Student-Friendly Guide
Successful Teamwork!
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2004
138 pages
978-0-335-22619-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Peter Levin
Student-Friendly Guide: Successful Teamwork!
For undergraduates and taught postgraduates working on group projects
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09/2004
Open University Press
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Read This First
- Part One Basics and context
- Chapter 01 What do we mean by 'a team'?
- Chapter 02 The bene.ts of working in a team
- Chapter 03 Teamwork skills
- Chapter 04 Academic teamwork and the job market
- Part Two Getting started
- Chapter 05 Get in your groups
- Chapter 06 Get to know one another
- Chapter 07 Formulate your ground rules
- Chapter 08 Check out your assignment and plan your work
- Part Three How are we doing?
- Chapter 09 Progress on the project
- Chapter 10 Progress from 'group' to 'team'
- Chapter 11 Personal progress
- Part Four Perspectives on team behaviour
- Chapter 12 Tensions: the task, the team and the individual
- Chapter 13 Team roles
- Chapter 14 Management systems and team organization
- Chapter 15 Team development: forming, storming, norming, performing ...
- Chapter 16 The decision-making process
- Chapter 17 Negotiation
- Chapter 18 Cultural traits and differences
- Chapter 19 Individual traits: 'cats' and 'dogs'
- Part Five Teamwork issues and solutions
- Chapter 20 The task: getting the work done
- Getting help from your teachers
- Sharing the work load: 'social loa.ng'
- The 'free-rider' problem
- Focusing on the task
- Taking decisions: 'risky shift', 'group polarization' and 'groupthink'
- Chapter 21 Personal and interpersonal issues
- The group that doesn't storm
- Getting your multicultural 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 Bene.ting from the experience
- Chapter 22 Getting feedback - including appreciation
- Chapter 23 Reflection
- Learning logs
- Reflective reports
- Chapter 24 Applying for jobs
- Polishing up your CV
- Being interviewed
- Group exercises in assessment centres
- Notes and References
- Further Reading
- Background and acknowledgments
- Back cover
