Re: Week 2 - Question 1: Groups must function well

The interdependence and the interrelationships play the important role in a small group. In Small Group and Team Communication written by Harris and Sherblom who claim, "Basic to the synergy of small groups is the interdependence of its members. To the extent that members depend on each other and share in resposibility for the group processs, the group gains the benefit of the shared ideas and interactions" (Harris and Sherbolm 32). In this statement, Harris and Sherbolm cleary explain all members in a team should work as a whole. However, every member has the responsibility to share the job and idea that will benefit their interactions during the group process. In order to reach the goal effectively, all members must function well and cooperate as a team. Harris and Sherbolm also state, "Taking advantage of interdependence requires learning how to work with the other members" (Harris and Sherbolm 32). In this sentence, the authors reveal the importance of collaboration in a team work.

The first example that I want to share is the project in last semester. We understand that each of us have to prepare two pages of contents related to the topic and present in class. At first, we select a member who is the coordinator to set up the meetings covering the whole project. The coodinator seems like the captain of a boat. Secondly, we share together with the ideas and the research in the meetings as these are the important steps to create our story board and power point for presentation. Thirdly, we modify the power point many times that will be very helpful to output our flawless project. At last, in order to present our project within the time limit, we rehearse several times that will not let the presentation overrun.

The second example that I want to share is the moving of my house in last spring. There is no doubt that moving a house is a big project for a single parent with two young and skinny adults. Hopefully, we are depend upon each other and set up our check lists covering all itms before we pack and label all boxes. We also understand that the perfect check lists will be very helpful for us to unpack after moving to our new house. Finally, we reach our goal within our schedule and there are no missing items after upack.

Conclusively, we have learnt that the interdependence and interrelationships are the crucial elements for the group process which seem like the concretes and cement for a building. If the group does not function well, as a result, every member will definitely waste the enery, times and have suffering at the end.