Introduction
The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate what we have learnt about team working through the residential experience, as we will see conflict is an important part of the team work thus I will try to illustrate the effects conflicts has on the effectiveness and efficiency of individuals and team working, to do so I will refer to theory and I will support or disconfirm the different ideas by analysing and discussing specific examples within which I took an active part in our experience at Scalford hall.
Most of traditional views tend to associate conflict with a disruptive element in the effectiveness of a team whereas it is also seen as being a source of creativity and challenging of traditional view, therefore I will try to balance the different views.
Every time you bring together people from different backgrounds and culture, it is certain that conflict will occur. That is what happened at Scalford Hall, as we were working in team composed of students coming from many different countries, we all had different languages, cultures and backgrounds which could increase the conflict potential.
In this context of diversity, Belbin’s (1970) suggest an understanding of the nature of the group at an individual level, which is to understand which role each members hold within a team. We all had completed the Belbin team role self perception inventory, thus we knew our individual role preference the role which was over-represented in my team was the implementors. I will not use belbin’s theory to support the different situation i have meet at scalford hall, for the good reason that I am not convinced by it. This theory is based on a self-perception of ourself and I am not sure that it is a relevant tool, people self perception is oft ...