The Varsity's Team

According to chapter 7 in terms of organizational behavior, a team is a group of two or more people working together to achieve a certain goal. They interact and influence each other through the things that they do. In the army cream team case study, the Varsity boat crew team kept on losing to the Junior Varsity boat crew team. Coach Preczewski now feel like he has to do something to fix the issue. There are many reason why the Varsity crew team lose so much against the Junior Varsity team. One is the fact that they don’t seem to be able to work well together. The team has so many people who think that they can do whatever they want. They don’t have the mindset of being a team player. The Varsity crew team had never been able to find someone

They start blaming others in the team as if they were working for themselves. For example, when coach P ran the experiment of trying to get the teams to email each other and try to motivate one another. Some of the things that coach P found out they were saying were not a good image. People were singling out others individual actions from the team. Another reason why the Varsity crew team lose from the Junior Varsity crew team is because of the lack of motivation that existed in the team. Each player from the Varsity crew team had different drives and needs.One of the players from the Varsity’s team felt like he could not work well because of specific people he was working with. Each player put forth less effort because than they should. In the other hand, the JV team did everything that a real team should always do. They always show commitment, teamwork, trust in one another and they knew how to motivate each other. To conclude, the Varsity crew team lose against the Junior Varsity crew team because there was not a defined leader who could step up and help to motivate the rest of the team. There were too many internal attribution among the members and there was a lot of social

First, coach P should have intervened as soon as he saw that there was not an actual leader in the Varsity crew team that can help to motivate the other players. The second opportunity that coach had was when he noticed the V crew team did not have a common goal as many of them seemed to be playing for their own goals. Once it is clear to coach P that the V crew team is a dysfunctional team, he should have tried to rethink his methods. He should have helped the V team create a clear goal that they can focus on since they did not have any. Once they have a specific goal that they are working towards. They will start to build confidence in each other. They will be able to control how they play as well their team’s ability to be successful. With that the norming stage will be created and they will start trusting each other and show commitment to the team’s goal. Also, coach P should watched out for those known to be disrupters and talk to them individually. He should have hosted a session in which he focuses on team building activities. Coach P should have made each member define the meaning of being part a team and how they can work together to be successful. Coach P should have had better expectations of the Varsity since they were not able to develop a team focus group like the JV crew team did. Coach P should have used his psychological expertise to