Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
...r a company as a programmer, while writing some application for that company I came across a problem. I talked my boss about that problem he take the program code from me and ask my college to fix that problem, and he fixed that problem. But that was not the solution because he produced some security holes in the system after checking it. I talked to my boss that if that program is working or not. I replayed by saying that it is working. My boss said that there is no problem in the program. It is only u that doesn’t know about the programming that was the time when I feel really very bad. In the class when we were talking about the story (page 107). It remind of that experience that I had last year. Synergy: During the time when I was leading a term of IT people for the company that I work for, I experienced this problem a lot, and that was group, But I was use to work in team and to divide the work among all my team members according to the ability. I use to assign the most difficult job to the most experienced person and the easiest to the newly hired. The biggest problem in this method was that we were always late in our project. That creates a very bad effect of me on my boss. As one day I was discussing this problem with my Dad who was working for Government form and has 37 years experience in management. The first thing he asked me was my strategy of my work in my team. I explain the scenario to him. My dad showed me really easy solution for that. He said start dividing work among the group of people like assign part of work to two or three people and try to keep inexperienced people with experienced one because some time a new person know more than the previous one. While sharing problems with all the team members. I worked upon this suggestion and the results were dramatic and we finished our project before time and I was very happy because of this situation. My approach towards team management was different. I thought if gave freedom to all the team members, that will increase the production. After that incident I was still wondering why it is so? But, during the class discussion, when teacher showed us an example, where he put one group as individuals to solve the problem and others other as a group. So the result was crystal clear. Then I understood the phenomenon. While my other problem...