Anderson and West's Theory

Anderson and West's Theory of Group Climate for Innovation

Our group made a long gown and a King's cape out of newspaper.

1. Vision - this is where the achievements are shared to the group. This must be attainable and achievable. Moreover, the group are setting the objectives.

Advantages:

• The group have an idea of what they want to achieve.
• They are sharing and communicating to build team work.
• It is realistic.
• Visualising will serve as an inspiration.

Disadvantages: 

• The group will have different vision and it might cause confusion.
• Vision is not the same as other's vision.
• The vision might not be clear.
• It is not realistic and will not work because of materials and time.
• Different perspectives and objectives of an individual in the group.

How did your group work together when creating newspaper clothes?

First, we set the target time and visualise the finished product. We are sharing ideas on which we will determine what garment we will produce and do we have enough equipment and materials to produce the garments. In additional, we ensure that it is attainable and realistic therefore we come up into positive vision. We also convert vision into reality.


2. Participative Safety  - it is a stage where you support and trust your team members. Every member can offer their ideas and solutions in a non judgemental climate. Make the group feel safe in a way that they can share their thoughts without discrimination.

Advantages:

• Broader and variety of ideas are shared.
• Members will not feel awkward.
• Everyone will cooperate.
• The work will be faster and will come into a positive result.
• Everyone is exerting effort.

Disadvantages:

• Different thoughts might be confusing.
• One person might contribute too much whilst other members are out of ideas because that person said it all.
• Being too comfortable working might lead into an insincerity work.

Was our group safe? Do we create trust and support?

We made our group safe through trusting and supporting each other. We shared different knowledge though we sort of lose communication at first but while we are doing the task, we realised that communication is important. All of us cooperate and do something that will help the group to achieve our group's objective.

3. Task Orientation - this is where the members are committed to excellence. There is a system which monitors and controls the performance of the members. Moreover, it gives emphasis on team and individual accountability.

Advantages:

• Be able to achieve the goal on time because the team is well-organised.
• Proper distribution of tasks will make the work easier and quicker.
• Everyone have their helpful contributions.
• There will be communication between them.

Disadvantages:

• The task assigned can be a hard task or confusing for the person.
• No additional ideas from the team.
• The given task to that person might not be completed on time because the person is out of ideas.
• Other members of the group might not be satisfied with the ideas and information an individual have given.

How did your group do task orientation?

We are four in the group so we separate our tasks to make our work faster. Some of us are putting the newspapers together, and some of us are cutting the tape and designing the gown and cape. We have two models in the group who will wear the garments. In additional, we have different tasks to do but we combined our ideas to make things possible and do it on the limited time given.

4. Support for Innovation - this is where the new ideas can be used whereas the innovation is approved of. And the support is practical. This requires the commitment of every member in the group.

Advantages:

• The highest standard of tasks can be achieved through practical support.
• Sharing vision and outcomes of the members.
• Improvements in every work.

Disadvantages:

• The other members are not supporting each other.
• Members are not comfortable in working with the team.
• Some of the members are not vocal,do their tasks individually and don't care whether their team members are struggling.

How did our member support each in innovating?

As a team, we must support each one of us to be able to reach our goal on time. If we didn't share our objectives and goals together, we will not come up into an idea of innovation. We applied support for innovation theory in our group through asking everyone what the best thing that we can do to be able to attain and achieve the task given. One of us is helping out the models to sit down because one of the model is wearing a long gown out of newspaper so if we didn't support her, she might ripped the newspaper while moving by herself. Some of us was supporting and adding ideas to come up into finished product.