QUEST FOR FIRE

Group 3: Lakshmi, Chen Guan Qiao, Jin Zhou, Erdenechimeg

QUESTION 1

1. Describe how a leader can promote moral and ethical behavior and change the group functioning?

WHO IS A LEADER?

A leader is a person who

has a vision, a drive and a commitment to achieve that vision, and the skills to make it happen.

Leaders skill
Effective communication - A leader's communication must move people to work toward the goal.

Motivation - a leader has to be able to motivate everyone to contribute. Each of us has different "buttons". A leader knows how to push the right buttons on everyone to make them really want to do their best to achieve the leader's goal.

Planning - The leaders have to build precise plan to keep everyone moving together toward the goal.

Influence From Ethical Leaders:

Leaders have an impact on the lives of

followers.
Leaders

have responsibility.

enormous

ethical

They have to respect the followers

interests, and needs

Leaders help to establish and reinforce

organizational values.

QUESTION 2 2. Describe how teamwork can promote moral and ethical behavior and how it can be used to manage our environment, people, and oneself?

WHAT IS

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Characteristics of Effective Teams

The team must have a clear goal and everyone knows when the objective has been met. The team must have a results-driven structure. The team should be allowed to operate in a manner that produces results.

The team must have competent team members to tackle arisen problems.

The team must have unified commitment. It means that all individuals must be directing their efforts towards the goal.

Characteristics of Effective Teams

The team must have a collaborative climate. It is a climate of trust produced by honest, open, consistent and respectful behavior.

The team must have high standards that are understood by all. Vague statements such as "positive attitude" and "demonstrated effort" are not good enough.

The team must receive external support and encouragement. Encouragement and praise works just as well in motivating teams as it does with individuals.

The team must have principled leadership to guide for the success

What Is The Contribution Of A Team?

Culture is made up of the values, beliefs, underlying assumptions, attitudes, and behaviors shared by a group of people. Culture is the behavior that results when a group arrives at a set of - generally unspoken and unwritten - rules for working together.

The Concepts Of Culture

Culture = behaviors
Culture is a word used to describe the behaviors that represent the general operating norms in your environment

Culture is learned
People learn to perform certain behaviors through either the rewards or negative consequences that follow their behavior.

Culture is learned through interaction

Employees learn culture by interacting with other employees.

Sub-cultures form through rewards

Subcultures are formed, as people get social rewards from coworkers or have their most important needs met in their departments or project teams.

QUESTION 3
2. How to intragroup and intergroup conflicts arise and how could they be resolved? Describe how humans used morality and ethics to manage ourselves and groups to increase our chances of survival?

What is conflicts?

Consequences of conflict
Positive Consequences
Leads to new ideas Stimulates creativity Motivates changes Promotes vitality Helps individuals and groups establish identities Serves as a safety valve to indicate problems

Negative Consequences
Diverts energy from work Threatens psychological well-being Wastes resources Creates a negative climate Breaks down group cohesion Can increase hostility and aggressive behaviors

Forms of conflicts in group

Intragroup Conflict- conflict that occurs between two

or more groups.

Intergroup Conflict- conflict that occurs within group.

The resolution of the conflicts:

Manage stress quickly while remaining alert and calm. By staying calm, you can accurately read and interpret verbal and nonverbal communication. Control your emotions and behavior. When youre in control of your emotions, you can communicate your needs without threatening, frightening, or punishing others.

Pay attention to the feelings being expressed as well as the spoken words of others.

Be aware of and respectful of differences. By avoiding disrespectful words and actions, you can almost always resolve a problem faster.

What are morals and ethics?

Morals are fundamental law of

human life
morals

are beliefs based on practices or teachings regarding how people conduct themselves in personal relationships and in society, while ethics refers to a set or system of principles, or a philosophy or theory behind them.

The competence of life survival

Evolution is a natural process in life. In its survival,

life has developed many functional forms (organisms, species). Each of these forms competes to survive. That competition commonly includes:
(1) competition with the external environment (2) competition between species (3) competition between individuals within a species.