A virtual Team at T A Stearns

Questions and Answers 1. Why is this group a team? This group is a team because they are engaged in a positive coordination and end uring their efforts which is resulting in greater performance. 2. Has anyone in this case acted unethically? The two employees Tom and CY violated their company s trust. They did this by hidi ng their new technique of working which helps them save additional hours, and th ey preferred it using for their leisure. And the company is in impression that t hey are working complete working hours and justifying their money. In the other case they would ve handled more work and gain more money and bring the benefit to the company at the same time 3. What if any characteristics of groupthink are manifested in the work team? Their high moral status was one of the factors that was resulting in groupthink. The group members think that they can cover up their new innovative strategy an d assumed that it was ok to keep this hidden so that they can enjoy more free ti me. They coordinated their schedules on how to work on these issues, even tried to hide it from the group leader. 4. Has Dave been an effective team leader? Yes he was as he was very much watchful on his team and knew the members enough to judge that there is something unusual going on which he needed to sort out qu ickly. He even discussed his issues with Cy, which shows that he was a good lead er.