Ben Bernanke Econ 490 Fall 2019

Work environments and working in teams often do come with conflicts because of the idea of bringing together different personality and leadership types. The way that different people address problems are different and often the importance of working in a team and understanding each members strengths. I have definitely experienced this during my internship and RSO experiences over the last few years. The most prominent group dynamic conflict I have ever experienced was during my internship last summer. I was working at an Artificial Intelligence Marketing start-up and was in a small team of three and then our manager. Despite being in a small team, there was still room for conflict and different opinions on how we carried out some of the tasks that my manager wanted us to complete. I started my internship around the same time as a new grad full-time employee and as we were both being on-boarded on to the marketing team of the company, I realized our responsibilities would be similar....

Description: The opposite of the gift-giving model we had been looking at would be to see what the results consist of when one performs worse than their peers and the process of fixing that. I have been in many team settings and have seen people experience consequences for lower performance levels and have also been on the other side of it as a leader and have had to handle giving discipline. This post will allow me to draw on my experiences and focus in on a situation where someone was penalized or disciplined by a supervisor and how each party handled it and grew from it. This post allows us to think beyond what we learned from the articles in the last post and put ourselves in those situations. My most prominent experience of seeing a team member being disciplined is though my professional consulting RSO. CUBE is an organization I have brought up a lot in my posts due to how much relevance it has to the things we write our posts about and learn about. CUBE has a very strict poli...