Organizational Collaboration
What makes collaboration successful, and the role that leaders play in successful collaboration. Some of the more innovative companies are creating a culture of collaboration where everyone has strengths that they bring to the table, and everyone is involved in solving problems and creating new ideas.
Answer the following within a word limit of 1000 words:
For the first part,
Research a company that has a culture of collaboration:
1. Briefly assess which of the organization’s characteristics make you think that the culture is collaborative.
2. Assess whether the company is successful at collaboration. If so, provide an example that supports your opinion. If not, discuss why it is not successful.
3. Analyze the role the company’s top leaders play in the culture of collaboration.
For the second part,
1. Choose a situation where you were part of a collaborative effort that was successful and a situation where you were part of a collaborative effort that was not successful. These can be from work, from sports teams, or from other collaborative efforts you have experienced.
2. Compare these two collaborative efforts to analyze what the similarities and differences were, and why one was successful and one was not.