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SMALL GROUP/ET 10/24/23 Mr. B. Context Clues 6th Grade PT. 2
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âBecause Jane is an optimist, she is certain all people are good at heart. What does optimistic mean?
hopeful and positive about the future
âNo matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internet connection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous. What does ubiquitous mean?
found everywhere
Because Jane is an optimist, she is certain all people are good at heart. What does optimistic mean?
No matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internet connection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous. What does ubiquitous mean?
Wherever he goes, the esteemed Dr. Sanchez is applauded for his life saving research.What does "esteemed" mean?
Most of America's Founding Fathers did not believe in women's suffrage. Only men could vote in the United states until 1920. What does suffrage mean?
In the early 1600s, a dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean was a daunting idea. The Europeans, who would someday be known as the Pilgrims, must have been a very determined and brave group of settlers. What does daunting mean?
Fortunately, the explosion diverted the asteroid from a course that would have sent it hurdling into our planet. What does diverted mean?
Your cousin claimed to be late because the doors of his house were frozen shut. Even though I have my doubts, his explanation is plausible. It got really cold last night. I'll just have to take his word for it. What does plausible mean?
If you don't curtail your spending, you'll be broke in no time at all! What does curtail mean?
Over time, the pipes become corroded and need to be replaced. What does corroded mean?
The lost campers sweltered in the heat of the desert sun.
Congress put a tariff on overseas goods so the price would not be lower than domestic products.
The scared rock climber balanced precariously on the edge of the cliff.
We often travel to New England in the autumn to see the bright colors of the fall foliage.
Each student was allotted two tickets to the dance.
The mood was somber at the funeral of the former president.
The country cottage with it's beautiful garden was just a small part of the picturesque town.
When he didn't understand the instructions, the student asked the teacher to clarify them.
Cold rain fell all day and clouds hid the sun making it a dismal Saturday afternoon.
His mother gets anxious if he stays outside after dark because she is fearful he might get lost.
After the rainstorm, the rainbow lit up the sky with vivid colors.
Abstract The main focus of this research is to discuss the perspective of the teamwork and its impaction organizational performance and success. Also highlight the Meanings of Team and its work sprit towards batter organizational performance and specific to its impact on the success of organization that provided the basis for this research study. In this research study a thoroughly focus was on organization and teamwork. The aim of this research is to deliver a participative view of teamwork in the organization, and also discourses the major issues and emphases on the recent work that opens the basis to move research onward. There is much worth in taking a more focus on the essential areas of teamwork. The team signifies the spirit and working capacity of the employees as team to bring organization to the success. The various explanations, definitions, processes, dimensions, team size and benefits etc. regarding the above topic teamwork and organizational success is highlighted. Keywords: Teamwork, Success, Organization, Performance, Work Groups, Employees Introduction It is indeed human beings have learned in their beginning of life to work together as (Team) that have made such a remarkable developments as unique specie. Human beings have experience throughout their social history, lived, loved, grow younger to older and worked together in groups said West M.A. (2012).The mutual social knowledge of living and functioning together creates connection among people, society and families. When work is done cooperatively as a team it can achieve extremely extra work than individually. Team can be defined as in the human society to live, to work and to play and to cooperate with others for particular task. According to John W. Newstrom et al (1993) âteam is the process of assessing performance of workers, passing information and exploring methods to increase performanceâ. If observe closely, one can discover the instances of The Government: Research Journal of Political Science Supplementary Edition Vol. III 88 The Government social (teams) they are functioning either effectively or ineffectively everywhere; organizations, schools, work place, home etc. âCoordinating the events of people is like sand house, making by using a sole particles of sandâ expressed Belbin, R. M.(2010). Moreover it is one of the general myths that the skill of team member is more important than their vigor, attention and determination for the tasks. Another widespread myth is that the team members are not alone accountable for the achievements or failures of their tasks the truth is that the members are the small parts in the teams and their individual abilities effect on the various results in team. The working relationships exist among team that might sight these relationships at different levels of involvement or relationships among the members as they move towards the degree of communication, integration and commitment increases. Terry L.G. et al (1980) expressed that âThe skills are essential if members have to work together efficiently in complex situations, only development of skills and relationships, involvement on the task regarding the particular task might be selected for reaching at target that is considered as a definition of a teamâ. Team often perform higher when they work together with sprit that enable them to achieve a collective goal at the workplace, it is not only benefits to the organization also affects the workers confidence and success. Cooperating on various tasks reduces workloads for all team members and enables them to share duties or ideas. Work as a team is the part of everyone's life, as one is a member of a family team, staff team, school team, and community teams etc., so as to understand how to work effectively as a team member. Especially there is a need when task is threatened with increasingly many problems for example; the energy problem has effects on organization, family life, and social development and the multi-dimensional nature of many problems require a scientific skill based problem solving approach. Terry L.G, et al (1980) expressed that âThe skills, competencies and efforts of team by setting priorities the team can have better impact on the problems solving such efforts can reduce work load, work duplication, and produce a result better than separate effortsâ. There are some processes of teamwork by adopting those the objectives can be achieved easily. Le Pine, et al, (2008) identified10 teamwork processes that fall in three categories following are those. TEAMWORK PROCESSES TRANSITION PROCESSES â˘Mission analysis â˘Goal specification â˘Strategy formulation ACTION PROCESSES â˘Monitoring progress toward goals â˘Systems monitoring â˘Team monitoring and backup behavior â˘Coordination INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES â˘Conflict management â˘Motivation and confidence building â˘Affect management Team Work 89 Teamwork process reduces the work stress on every member which permits members to complete given important task of organization; teamwork offers members an opening to pledge with each other. Also it develops relations between the members who start a teamwork they usually sense appreciated on productive accomplishment of task. It may be cited one of the best instances of surgical team; where surgeon is assisted by his team; nurses, anesthetist and experts etc., everyone knows that their success depends upon the teamwork. In addition they are devoted to the aim that is human life it is easy to succeed with best teamwork. The important role of manager is the team building, trust building, confidence building, in the team to achieve the task. In the Situation where all team members contribute the task, it develops the positive relationship in the team that improves the trust of team members.âFunctions effectively members of team must be flexible, committed, trusting each other and help to each otherâs in the progress and the achievement of goalsâ Expressed PlamĂnek (2008). The accountability of every member in the team must be increased so that they do not let each other down therefore they do their best for the achievements of their teams. In contrast, working alone on a task the pressure is generally high in team in those cases of small confidence impacts fewer on members. Team consists on members who always vary from each otherâs in skills, knowledge and abilities but working together that is an opportunity for them to gain skills and knowledge from each otherâs that they had never before. Working alone on a task is a challenge and using the ideas of each other brings them to come up with a mutual resolution and the achievement of the task. Nowadays theoretical development and research has rested largely a new trend that is emerging within the organizations as an essential process of teamwork. Teamwork has brought a new move in the research and development to the inputs and outputs that bound, constrain and impact on the team processes within organizations said Ilgen, D.R. (1999). The world is changes fast, any one set of instructions canât be sufficient, changes needs flexible members, teams and organizations so as to be effective on task. This paper suggests that in teams members must use the exclusive human abilities. Cannon B.et al (1995) has prĂŠcised dimensions of teams into three categories: Team dimensions 1-Cognitions: include associations, task team-mate characteristics, team mission, objectives, norms, and resources, team role interaction patterns, skills, roles, and team orientation. 2-Skills: consist on adaptability, shared situational awareness and mutual concept to conflict resolution. 90 The Government 3-Attitudes: symbolize motivation, collective potency, shared vision, team cohesion, mutual trust, collective orientation and importance of. Teamsize Researchers have given different approvals about the best size of team as Katzenbachetet al (1993) suggested that the teams should comprise on a dozen or so members which are enough to achieve a task. Although seven is the best size of the team in the organizational practices said Scharf, A. (1989). Several views of researchers are expressed in the literatures and it is difficult to decide which better is because their opinions are based on their own observations. The team size matters in the proper output and performance however from an empirical research it is also difficult to decide the suitable team size and what to accept. This study suggests that team size has a practical link with efficacy such as few or many member shave impact on the performance but size matters. Proper size of team improves the performance maximum stated Campion M. A et al (1996).These different results are expected due to the fact that appropriate team size is required for task, environment and situation where team works. However, larger teams can also experience coordination problems that delay performance. Sheppard, J. A. (1993) expressed that the question of best teamâs size is a complex one; more research is required on this topic to explain the impact of team size on given definite task. Literature Review Across many different organizations and industries teamwork is focused to increase the performance of employeesâ their unity and also create work culture. Organizations those regularly develop new ideas or products using a project-based approach and assemble teams in order to focus responsibilities to achieve the object. Researchers have given dissimilar meanings of âteamsâ. Dyer W.G. (2007) said that âteams are groups of people who trust in cooperation, if members are expert the success of goal is more possibleâ. It is essential due to the problemsolving cooperation added from many minds of team members working on a resolution of problems. Team members contribute their thoughts together to make exclusive plans for dealing with problems and this unity enhance the result due to interaction, trust and teamwork. Teamwork means a "work done by several companions with each doing a part but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole" Merriam, (2012). In addition combined employees are expected less hostile to each other and accepting more of each otherâs decisions. Unity of employees can increase the flow of work in organization. When employeeâs working together as a team, they learn from each other that awareness is based on their personal experiences and from coworkers; Team Work 91 employees from different departments may acquire knowledge from each other. The main object for organizations is to hold the team effort to achieve output and quality; team is a key to achieve quality productivity. According to Maddux et al (2003) âsome of the organizations have major benefits from the use of teamwork which are showed in the following chart: Benefits of Teamwork 1 Improving quality of work life for employees 2 Reducing absenteeism and increasing turnover 3 Increasing innovation and change 4 Improving organizational adaptability and flexibility A real team is mostly one where members are allowed to take decisions that how to complete task. That authority enables them to control the work process, decreases the outside control and increases the sense of duty for work. Team always feels superiority on workplace and they rely on each otherâs being there. PlamĂnek (2008) said that âaffiliation with teamwork gives member a sense of belonging, interaction and recognition of successâ. These actions support to remove the sense of loneliness of team member in organization. Effective teams can also improve efficacy through communication and trust between the team members, quality of work and decrease in absenteeism contribute to positive impact on team. Involving employees in teamwork helps the organization remain open to new ideas.âThe world of organizations is shifting individualism is out and collectivism is in, power is out, empowerment is in.â stated G. M. Parker (1998). This study discovers the experiences and difficulties of teamwork that employees and organizations are facing nowadays due to big transformation and enlarged globalization. In recent years a remarkable amendment has been emerged in the belief of team working organizations. The modern study has explored that the scope of teamwork have been appeared in system rooted in belief, and employees accept changes that denoting a modern organizational system. The organizations which are responsive to the changes appear to achieve greater satisfaction. Although it may be suggested that, the managers should assess the values and beliefs of their employees to play more dedicated role in the development of organization by making sprit to face the modern challenges. Organizational cultural is much significant and it has the excessive impact on the performance of organization and employeesâ but it is quiet arguable topic that the culture of teamwork can be developed according to the requirement. It is difficult to specify the relationships and to assess the reliable set of values to use as they believed symbol across the entire organizations. This review study focus that 92 The Government there is a great influence of organizational culture on the assumptions, values, and beliefs on the individualsâ considerations, actions and performances and so is vice versa, through learning, and training process. However the researchers believe that the organizational setup aids to unite employees of diverse cultures and dissimilar social backgrounds, traditions and have their own beliefs to work. Creating a positive teamwork culture it has several diverse aspects are goal setting, conflict resolution, empowerment, ability to accomplish tasks, measuring output and consideration for other teamwork cultures stated Pack L, et al April 27, (2012). Team work in the organization delivers employees the wisdom of unity; understand to each otherâs, and reducing conflict. In addition teamwork in organization inspires employee for impartiality by affirming that no one is ignored in the organization and all treated equally. It is known that a team in organization is bound and sincere to work with dedication to bring the success. If the employees are committed and recognize the teamwork values and its benefits, as a part of the organization they can contribute a lot to the achievement of organization. One can finds the informal instances of team at these level, family, society, community, tribe and work groups etc., and formally team appears at the level of departments, functional groups, and other organizational units. The employees feel a greater sense of achievement for being a part of an organization, if they attain team work, having freedom to work not forced. The system gives best performance to achieve recognition and credit from their managers and it will increase their effort that helps them to contribute the organizational performance. Each team batter knows about their role and how to achieve tasks. The true spirit of teamwork gives benefit to organization in maintaining its standard by which it becomes identified. The team defines its specialty, and the way it is doing task that is perceived by the organization as well as its managers and it is secured by appreciation. Employees identify what they believe; that exist in their belief system and those understandings call them to change their views to develop and raise attention towards batter performance. The literature contains sufficient definitions of teamwork and the word team is used to denote a set of generally developed as to learn collective values, attitudes and cooperation to work. The study praises that the teamwork is mostly related with the team success for instance, Wagner (1995) described that âin the team individual is less valued and group is more valued, withâ. It is found in the study that individualismcollectivism both regulates the relationships between team size, standing, and cooperation that have better effects on the cooperation of individualists rather than the cooperation of collectivists. Team Work 93 Conclusion The main concentration of this research paper is to examine more in-depth the fundamental of teamwork and its effectiveness to achieve the organizational goals. Teamwork provides vast amounts of knowledge and information, cultural differences each of these building a culture of teamwork and the skill to make the valuable solutions of the problems. To work efficiently, team members need a good understanding of how to do their job, to achieve goal and for that a basic way to ensure understanding is training, then they have to be motivated to do a job. Team is a vital activity of organization, when organization desires to perform sound it has to be confident that team functions effectively. Consequently it is compulsory to know how team performs, what manners within a team happen, and how they make decisions. If there is knowhow of teamwork events, it can be effective for the tasks that they have to accomplish. Organizations build up their own culture through tradition, history and structure these values can be accepted by team workers of an organization. The values and assumptions are the vital tools of organizations and are used as guidance for team. These have to do mostly with the basic dignity and worth of all members of team and the ability, necessity for them to solve the problems and work for the positive change. Through this review study is concluded that there is a good impact of teamwork on the organizations doings and success. Subsequently in recently developed literature there is a great focus amongst the social scientists and scholarsâ in their discussion on the above topic teamwork. The above study is also an evidence of little effort to assess the significance of teamwork in organizations success. teams in organizNew Trends in Agriculture Extension approaches Extension has been, and still is, under attack from a wide spectrum of politicians and economists over its cost and financing. As a result, Extension Systems have had to make changes, by restating the systemâs mission, developing a new vision for the future, and formulating plans for the necessary transition to achieve the desired change. 1. Privatization of Agricultural Extension Service Privatization: Process of funding and delivering the extension services by private individual or organization is called Private Extension. Concept: Privatization of extension refers to services rendered in rural area & allied aspects of extension personnel working in private agencies or organization for which farmers are expected to pay a fee & it can be viewed as supplementary or alternative to public extension services (Sarvanan & Shivalinge 1980). Privatization approaches ⢠Share cropping system ⢠Village extension contract system ⢠Public extension through private delivery ⢠Service for vouchers Strengths of Private Extension System ⢠More demand - driven rather than supply â driven ⢠High quality of services in terms of satisfying information needs of clientele, trained manpower, sustained finances and resource allocation ⢠Provides for an information mix and choices available to farmers ⢠Enhanced efficiency of staff ⢠Assure continuous supply and quality agricultural products ⢠More effective because farmer can select an adviser who is the best able to help ⢠Healthy competition among service provider will lead to better quality and lower costs for service Weakness of Private Extension System ⢠Concentrate on area having favorable physical environment ⢠More face-to-face contacts (person oriented) ⢠Increased dependence of farmers and hence exploitation ⢠No education role ⢠Deprivation of small farmers ⢠Hamper the free flow of information 2. Cyber Extension or e-extension Concepts Cyber space: it is the imaginary or virtual space of computers connected with each other on Networks, across the Globe. Cyber extension: it means 'using the power of online networks, computer communications and digital interactive multimedia to facilitate dissemination of agriculture technology. Cyber Extension thus can be defined as the extension over cyber space. Important tools of cyber extension E-Mail, Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Gopher, Archie and World Wide Web (WWW) Strengths of Cyber Extension ⢠Access to the astounding information and continuously available ⢠Information rich and instantaneously available of information ⢠Interactive communication ⢠The information is available from any point on the globe ⢠Communication is dynamic ⢠Cut steps from traditional process ⢠Save money, time and effort ⢠Multiplicity of purpose Issues and Concerns of Cyber Extension ⢠Lack of Reliable Telecom Infrastructure in Rural Areas ⢠Erratic or no Power Supply ⢠Lack of ICT Trained manpower (willing to serve) in Rural Areas ⢠Lack of content (locally relevant and in local languages) ⢠Lack of Information Services to Rural Clientele ⢠Low Purchasing power of the Rural communities ⢠Lack of Holistic Approaches ⢠Issues of Sustainability Application of cyber extension ⢠Village information shops Dr. M.S. SwaminathanResearch Foundation, Chennai ⢠Information villagers MANAGE in Ranga Reddy District in Andhra pradesh ⢠Gyandoot net initiative of District Dhar, Madhya Pradesh. ⢠Warna wired village of National Informatics Center (NIC) in Kolhapur- Sangli Districts of Maharashtra 3. Market-Led-Extension (MLE) Concepts Market: A congregation of prospective buyers & sellers with a common motive of trading a particular commodity. Extension: It is the spreading/reaching out to the mass Market-led-extension: Agriculture & economics coupled with extension is the perfect blend for reaching at the door steps of common man with the help of technology. Dimensions of market-led extension ⢠Marketing mix: A planned mix of the controllable elements of a product's marketing plan commonly termed as 4Ps: product, price, place, and promotion. These four elements are adjusted until the right combination is found that serves the needs of the product's customers, while generating optimum income. ⢠Marketing plan: A marketing plan is a comprehensive document that outlines a business and marketing efforts for the coming year. It describes business activities involved in accomplishing specific marketing objectives within a set time frame. A marketing plan also includes a description of the current marketing position of a business, a discussion of the target market and a description of the marketing mix that a business will use to achieve their marketing goals. ⢠Market Intelligence: It is the information relevant to a companyâs markets, gathered and analyzed specifically for the purpose of accurate and confident decision making. Market intelligence includes the process of gathering data from the companyâs external environment, whereas the business intelligence process is primarily based on internal recorded events â such as sales, shipments and purchases. ⢠Market oriented production ⢠Use of Technology Strengths of market-led extension ⢠SWOT analysis of the market ⢠Organization of Farmersâ Interest Groups (FIGs) ⢠Enhancing the interactive and communication skills of the farmers ⢠Establishing marketing and agro-processing linkages ⢠Advice on product planning ⢠Educating the farming community ⢠Direct marketing ⢠Acquiring complete market intelligence ⢠Publication of agricultural market information Production of video films of success stories ⢠Challenges to market-led extension ⢠Gigantic size of extension system ⢠Information technology Diverse conditions ⢠Market intelligence ⢠Reforms in agricultural extension system Government Initiatives ⢠Central warehousing Corporation-1965 ⢠MSP by Commission for Agricultural Cost and Price (CACP) ⢠Food Corporation of India ⢠Then some others as: Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), Jute Corporation of India (JCI), National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Agriculture and Processed food Export Development Authority (APEDA) etc. 4. Farmer--Led-Extension (FLE) Farmer--led-extension is defined as 'the provision of training by farmers to farmers, often through the creation of a structure of farmer promoters and farmer trainers' (Scarborough et al., 1997). Philosophy and principles ⢠Farmers and local institutions (e.g. producer organizations or village leaders) should play a key role in selecting farmer-trainers and monitoring and evaluating them. This helps make the programmes more accountable to the community or groups that they serve. ⢠Farmer-trainers are âof the communityâ; they communicate in local languages and are more sensitive to local cultures, mannerisms, farming practices, and farmersâ needs. ⢠Farmer-trainers should be selected on the basis of their skills and interest in sharing information, not just on their farming expertise. ⢠Farmer-trainers need strong linkages with and support from development agents (whether government, non-government organization (NGO), or private), the people who train and backstop them. Farmer-trainers generally serve as a complement to existing extension systems, rather than being a substitute for them. ⢠Facilitating organizations and local institutions need to be proactive in ensuring that women as well as men become farmer-trainers. ⢠Simple and appropriate reference materials should be made available to the farmer trainers. Essential Elements of Farmer--led-extension ⢠The group ⢠The Field ⢠The Facilitator ⢠The curriculum ⢠Programme leader ⢠Financing Special features of Farmer--led-extension ⢠All learning is field based & it is primary venue for learning ⢠FLE group learning constantly over the experimentation period ⢠FLE promotes healthy decisions & quality decisions ⢠Farmers conduct their own field studies with comparisons or treatments ⢠Facilitates Farmer-to-Farmer communication ⢠Field staff serve as facilitators ⢠FLE is a unique way to educate farmers ⢠It is an effective platform for sharing of experiences and collectively solving agriculture related problems. 5. Expert system Expert system is an intelligent computer program that uses knowledge and inferences procedures to solve problems (Daniel Hunt, 1986). Objectives of developing expert system ⢠To enhance the performance of agricultural extension personnel and farmer ⢠To make farming more efficient and profitable ⢠To reduce the time required in solving the problems ⢠To maintain the expert system by continuously upgrading the database Advantages of expert system ⢠Solves critical problems by making logical deductions without taking much time ⢠It combines experimental and conventional knowledge with the reasoning skills of specialists ⢠To enhance the performance of average worker to the level of an expert Limitations of expert system ⢠Expensive computer program ⢠Mostly developed not in regional languages ⢠Requires AC power and internet connection all the time ⢠Complex software requires computer skilled personnel Modules of expert system in agriculture ⢠COMAX: Integrated crop management in cotton ⢠SOYEX: Soybean oil extraction expert system ⢠PLANT/ds: Diagnosis of soybean diseases ⢠MAIZE: Maize expert system for field crop management ⢠SEMAGI: Weed control decision making in sunflowers ⢠Rice Crop Doctor: Developed by National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) Difference between conventional and expert system of extension Conventional Extension ⢠Universal approachability of same information is a problem ⢠Information is given whatever is available without considering needs and resources ⢠No Cost benefit analysis ⢠Information flow depends on availability of agent ⢠Require users to draw their own conclusion from facts Expert System of Extension ⢠Universal approachability of same information is possible ⢠Information is chosen based on their needs and resources ⢠Cost benefit analysis ⢠Information through Cyber Cafe at any place at any time ⢠Conclusion is drawn based on the decision given by the expertSmall Group Instruction DOLSmall Group InstructionSmall Group Feb 22 WeekSmall Group Reading Unit 2SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONGrade 9 Unit 1 Small Group Reading