Case Study

Members:

Emily,Giuseppe,Giuseppe,Giuseppe,Crew Members,Giuseppe.

Learning Objectives:

1.What are the decision making traps a team might fall into

2. Why listening to every team members idea is important.

3.How a leader should take a decision when they are unaware of the consequences.

4.The importance of proper planning,coordination and meeting.

5.Why is rapport so important in teamwork

Story:

Emily  has been in the army for 10 years now.This isn’t the first time he has got the mission to go to the  enemy land.All these  working has a commander he had gained many skills.He knew how to easily blend  in with the country people.Any assignment given to him was completed with ease and perfection.When  he was incharge of any mission,he ensured that all his teammates was safe.

But this time it turned out to be different.As usual Emily  and his members were on their mission.Little did  they know that a land slide would cause a huge difference in their mission.Emily  was inside a mine when  there was a sudden evacuation alert to the rest of the crew members.Its been 3 days since he went  inside the mine,while the rest of the crew members reached their meeting spot a day before.They were  in aghast not knowing where their leader might have been.He was the best commander in chief,always  at the rescue of this team members.The sudden landslide,intense dust with high winds forced the rest of  the crew members to evacuate the place and abort the mission.As he was not back on the time,his crew  members assumed Emily  was dead.

Lying under piles of rock, Emily  was there still alive but injured.He had no way to go back to where his  crew was.His intercom was lying somewhere under the debris or worse could have been destroyed.He  had to find a way out of the mine field as soon as possible and contact his crew.With the  items in his  backup he tries to survive and start making a plan to come out of the mine.He tries to establish signals  from the satellite device he has.

The main Defence administration,discovers that Emily  is alive when signals form his devices show up.They  come with a plan to rescue him,but withholds the information from the crew as not to disturb them.

Weak out of injury and hungry has he hasn’t had anything for days Emily  decides to start removing the big  pile of rock and moving forward till he finds a way out.He tries to reconnect the satellite mobile so that  he could connect to the head office.

Giuseppe,the director in chief of the mission,convinces the defence administrator Giuseppe to allow to inform  him the crew of Emily ’s survival;his crewmates are thrilled except for Giuseppe,the commander in line,who is  guilt stricken for leaving him behind.

As Emily tries to repair the communication satellite,he hears a rumbling noise and finds a hard rock  moving towards him.He immediately moves to the small gap available to save himself but his satellite  gets ruined,making all his efforsts to reconnect go in vain.Meanwhile,the administrative department  tries to arrange ways to rescue Emily from the place without disturbing his crew members.For this a  persons help is required who is in the enemy land.The administrative department contacts Giuseppe who  is has been a spy for the country and has been living one among the people of the enemy land.

Giuseppe who is scientifically equipped devices a plan to save Emily with the help of his newly made  automatic robot.Meanwhile,Giuseppe contacts the crew members and ask them to go back to the place of  landslide and also informs that Giuseppe would be joining them shortly.The crew then drives back to the  place.

Emily has become weak and its been difficult for him to walk further.He rests for some time sipping the  last drop of water he had saved.He finally gathers the strength to move forward, but a big rock stays has  a hinderence.Dismayed,with no strength left to walk he collapses on the groun praying for a miracle to  happen.

Meanwhile,Giuseppe and his crew reaches the place.With the help of the robot the crew moves forward in  search of Emily.They find it very hard to move inside the mine as the entire place is covered with piles of  rocks.Giuseppe grabs the drilling equipment brought by Giuseppe and the crew goes ahead and drills .They find  Emily lying on the ground.They carry Emily back to their homeland

Discussion Questions:

1.What decision maling traps did Emily and others fall into?

2.What contributed to Defence Departments reluctance to inform other crew members that Emily is still  alive?

3.What communication strategies would have helped Emily communicate more efficiently?

4.If you were Emily and got stranded in an unkown place,what would you do to retun to your home?

Key Terms:

1.Ethics:Working through dilemmas to decide what is right

2.Self Regulation:controlling or redirecting disruptive impulses and moods

3.Decision Making Traps:Distortion and biases that can hinder peoples abilities to make a clear and well  thought out decision

4.Meeting Preparation:Creating a purpose,agenda,and audience design for a meeting

