Posted: February 26th, 2023

Week 6

   Complete discussion board, discussion board replies, and all assignments for the week according to rubrics   

Due Date: 11:59 pm EST Sunday of Unit 6
Points: 100

Overview:

In this assignment, you will reflect on your virtual team project experience.

Instructions:

Examine your Virtual Team experience by addressing the following:

• Evaluate how well your team performed.

• Identify the communications methods the team used and assess the
effectiveness of these methods.

• Identify and evaluate the conflicts that occurred and assess the conflict resolution
methods utilized by the team.

• Provide three recommendations for improvement of the team process.

• Submit individual participation levels for each team member by week.
o Each team member was expected to participate in the team project a

minimum of three times per week.
o Calculate an individual’s level as a percentage based on overall

participation in the project.
o The levels for the entire team per week should add up to 100%.

Requirements:

• Subimt an APA formatted Word document.

• Length of no more than 3 pages excluding the title and reference pages.

• Include at least two resources.

Be sure to read the criteria by which your work will be evaluated before you write
and again after you write.

BUS505 – Organizational Creativity

Virtual Teams – Individual Team Reflection

Evaluation Rubric for Individual Team Reflection Assignment

CRITERIA Deficient Needs
Improvement

Proficient Exemplary

(0-11 points) (12-15 points) (16-19 points) (20 points)

Team
Performance
Evaluation

Missing or
inadequate.

Missing key
details.

Provides
adequate
details and a
rational.

Detailed and
insightful.

(0-11 points) (12-15 points) ( 16-19 points) (20 points)

Team
Communication
Methods

Communication
methods are not
fully identified;
connection to
team
functioning not
established.

Communication
methods are
identified but
lack clear
details of impact
on team
functioning.

Communication
methods are
well detailed
and somewhat
describe impact
on functioning.

Communication
methods are
fully described;
their impact on
team
functioning well
documented.

( 0-11 points) (12-15 points) (16-19 points) (20 points)

Team Conflict
Resolution

Areas of
possible
conflict or team
approaches not
described.

Identifies a
possible area
conflict;
approaches to
resolve conflict
limited unclear.

Identifies at
least one area
of conflict or
potential
conflict;
approaches
taken to support
team progress
are presented.

Identifies at
least two areas
of conflict or
potential
conflict;
approaches
taken to support
team progress
fully detailed.

(0-6 points) (12-15 points) (16-19 points) (20 points)

Participation
based on
weekly reports

Missing or
inadequate.

Reports
provided per
week; missing
major details.

Reports
provided per
week; missing
minor details.

Complete
reports provided
per week.

(0-5 points) (6-7 points) (8-9 points) (10 points)

Length More than 3
pages.

n/a n/a No more than 3
pages.

Clear and
Professional
Writing and
APA Format

Many errors
impede
professional
presentation;
guidelines not

Errors impact
professional
presentation;
one or no
scholarly

Few errors that
do not impact
professional
presentation;
two scholarly

Writing and
format are clear,
professional,
two or more
scholarly

Followed; APA
non compliant.

resources; APA
non compliant.

resources; APA
compliant.

resources; APA
compliant.

Using Sustainability as a Driving Force for Creativity and Innovation

Organizations are using sustainability innovation to establish a competitive advantage. Pick two of the organizations from the video resources above. Explore how these organizations use sustainability to drive innovation.  Are there similarities in the strategies?  How does your organization use sustainability to drive innovation?  Explain.  

In response to your peers, add to and question their analysis.

Exploring Responsible Innovation

Organizations are now using responsible innovation to establish a competitive advantage. As such, ethical considerations and sustainability have become popular in ensuring responsible innovation in organizations. Discuss the limits in terms of the contexts in which these types of innovation can be used and the kinds of innovations that can be applied. Furthermore, discuss responsible innovation such as ethical consideration and sustainability limit the innovation process.  Provide examples to support your assertion.

Reflect on the key learning from this unit.  What responsible innovation strategies would you consider if you were creating policies to support innovation in your organization?