KB7036/AT7026 Define and evaluate selected key theories and concepts associated with the main characteristics and processes of teams, the issues facing teams, and the organizational context of teams.

KB7036/AT7026 People in Project Management Assignment - Northumbria University, UK

Module Learning Outcomes - On completion of the Coursework, you will be able to:

1. Knowledge and understanding:

1. Define and evaluate selected key theories and concepts associated with the main characteristics and processes of teams, the issues facing teams, and the organizational context of teams.

2. Critically appraise selected key theories and techniques associated with the groups and teams in an organization, organizational structures, and management processes.

2. Intellectual/professional skills and abilities:

3. Empowered with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to create, participate in, and effectively lead real and virtual project-orientated teams.

4. Critically review the literature on team dynamics, management, and organizational behaviour and engage with what others have written through evaluative discourse.

3. Personal values attributes:

5. Exhibit the professional ethics characteristics of a University postgraduate student.

Tasks - You are required to prepare and write an Academic Paper that addresses the following tasks:

1. A brief description of a recently completed project-orientated task you have executed as a member of a small group/team within a formal or informal organizational context. The organizational context is required to be either educational, recreational, sporting, or public/private/third sector-related. This section of your Academic Paper should be no more than 500 words long.

2. A critical and evaluative reflection regarding the accuracy of your Belbin SPI report regarding the dominant team roles you choose to adopt while executing a small group/team project-orientated task within a formal or informal organizational context. Implicit within this task is the need for you to contextualise your self-reflection from the standpoint of the recently completed project-orientated task you identified in Point 1 above. You should draw upon the extant literature on Belbin`s theories when undertaking this task and decide about whether you agree with your Belbin SPI, and therefore, Belbin`s theory. This section of your Academic Paper should be no more than 1000 words long.

3. A critical and evaluative reflection of your perceived group/team dynamics while executing the small group/team project-orientated task you identified in Point 1 above.