Question

Alfred, Mario, and Lydia have worked together on the same team for three years. The company has just hired a new personnel director at their facility. The new director recommends a total restructuring of all jobs, including teams. Alfred is experiencing anxiety, Lydia is angry, and Mario is relieved as they all realize they must soon disengage and ultimately separate from the team. Alfred, Mario, and Lydia are in the ________ stage of team development.

Answer 1

Answer:

Adjourning

Explanation:

Adjourning stage is the final stage of team development, and involves a team dissolving and wrapping up its work. At this stage members celebrate their achievements, planes are made for transitioning to new teams or projects.

Over time members have bonded and there can be feeling of sadness when the team is disbanded this can result in reduced motivation. To avoid this it is important to highlight bthe teams successes over the period when they were operational.

Alfred, Mario and Lydia had worked together for 3 years and were getting seperated due to restructuring. Alfred is anxious, Lydia is angry, and Mario is relieved. It is important the team ends on a positive note as they prepare for their future assignments.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is: Adjouring.

Explanation:

To begin with, the model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965 and whose main purpose is to focus on the stages that a team must go through in order to accomplish an ultimate goal. Moreover, the the model included 5 different stages: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjouring.

To continue, the last of the stages, the adjouring stage, involves the situation where the team have already accomplished its ultimate goal and must now split in order to every member to be reassigned to other teams and new tasks.

To sum up, Alfred, Mario and Lydia are in the adjouring stage of team development due to the fact that they had already been together for so long and must go on in another teams with another goals.