Case Study for Building a Coalition for Woodson Foundation MGMT 591

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Case Study: Building a Coalition
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First of all, in order to successfully build a coalition for Woodson Foundation, we should be
aware of the necessary stags of group development that we are going to go over:
The first stage is Forming, which is bringing the new plan in development by creating an
executive team with the assistance of Human Resources to select the correct candidates for the
new occupations available.
The second period is Storming, which brings conflict among the members of the group,
principally because each representative of the groups has his or her particular interests. To go
through this phase, they have to think as a team without all the doubtful behavior
The third phase will be Norming. To succeed here, they should set their common goal up to
begin the performance, feel more comfortable with the rest of the team, and work efficiently
together. An important issue to take into account here is that there has to be someone who leads
that work assuming the role of leader.
The following stage is Performing. This stage will start when the team starts to perform together
to achieve the objective set up by the association.
Last but not least, the Adjourning stage starts when the team members feel a sense of loss and
their enthusiasm decay because the team's task is approaching to the end. Because of this phase,
it is imperative to distinguish the team members for their achievements and exult the team's
overall accomplishment.
In this case, since the group is not able to go through their own alleged and cannot completely
synchronize to succeed, they are stuck in the stages of Forming and Storming. “Each group has

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its own interests, and in some cases these are directly opposed to one another.” (Robbins and
Judge, 630). They are not taking into account that, know, they have a common goal to work for.
Furthermore, I believe the principal problem in Woodsom Foundation is the extremely different
background of each member of the group, making them strongly differ in some vital views to
start the project, like the participation of the parents on it. Secondly, there would be some
demographic diversity issues, considering that “most of the students served by the Washington,
D.C., school district are African American, along with large populations of Caucasians and
Hispanics. The NCPIE makeup generally matches the demographic diversity of the areas served