Simmons Laboratories Case Study
Simmons Laboratories is an organization that takes a strong approach on small teams to solve problems in studies. The organization has a project head, Dr. William Goh, who sets up the teams to work on a project. Simmons Laboratories team leader for the Photon Correlator is Brandon Newbridge. Newbridge took pride in his achievements of moving up quickly through the ranks at Simmons Laboratories and kept one thing in mind, Dr. Goh telling him “The sky is the limit for anyone who can produce!” This was all threatened by Lester Zapf. Dr. Goh suggested Lester Zapf work on Newbridge’s team to get him familiar with the research and organization. Newbridge noticed Zapf’s competence of the research, some of which
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Newbridge also stated that he thought Zapf could supply the leadership the team needed. Goh was annoyed by the letter. Goh had actually already offered Zapf another job. Goh was faced with a dilemma and asked Zapf if he would like to continue on the team or take the other job. Zapf chose the other job, leaving Goh to briefly place Link as team leader which hurt the team determinately.
Simmons Laboratories has a few issues within in this case. The issues range from reward systems, leadership, and group issues. The reward system at the Simmons Laboratories seem to be a more individual reward base versus team base rewards. This can be seen when Newbridge remembers Dr. Goh saying to him “The sky is the limit for anyone who can produce!” Individual rewards in teams tend to lead to self-advancement and not sharing with the team. This seems to be the motivational factor Newbridge but this begins to become threaten with the addition of Zapf to the team. The next issue seemed to be a self-evaluation in the work done by Newbridge. Newbridge was blocking out the possibility of issues with his own findings using perceptual defense (McShane and Von Glinow 191). This became noticeable when Zapf noticed that the work was close to the same work that he had done in the past. For some reason, the relation of the work compared to Jennings surface upset Newbridge because he was unaware of Jennings surface and the reference made
In this lab, the purpose was to determine the stability of a substance after adding an acid or a base. The results claim that liver and buffer are the most resistance to change in pH. Looking at figure 3, buffer and liver both maintain a stable pH even with the addition of an acid or base. However, potato and water have less buffer in them since their pHs did change. In figure 3, the potato acid’s pH level decreased by two, and the potato base’s pH level increased by two. The level of pH of a water acid decreased by 4, while the water base’s pH increased by 5. These results all tie to the fact that buffer is a substance that maintains a stable pH; the presence of buffer in organisms help maintain homeostasis by binding or releasing hydrogen
Jack Fogel, the project leader failed to outline the clear vision of where they are going. He became the part of clique inside the group and supported Bret O’Brien’s ideas ignoring Valerie Merz. As a leader, Jack Fogel also failed in development function of the team. Team feedback and coaching are the two important steps in team development. Lack of information sharing and growing conflict among the members affected the group
Success is positive in which it comes with a great deal of recognition and pride, but negative in which “ Ultimately, if the researcher succeeds, a flood of colleagues will pave the roads over the path laid, and those roads will be orderly and straight, taking an investigator in minutes to a place the pioneer spent months or years looking for.” and, “the perfect tool will be available for purchase just as laboratory mice can now be ordered from supply houses.” Barry says, “ flood of colleagues” and “pave the roads over the path laid”, which is very a powerful metaphor that depicts after all of the hard work and courage scientist have to go through their peers will begin to use this experiment with no account for the scientist who created
As a result Dr Brownlow decided he needed to develop his senior staff by sending them on a training course, he chose Brenda Frame and Judith Smythe for this training. Richard believed the problems lie not with his style of management but by the lack of leadership and management by Brenda Frame and Judith Smythe. Brenda and Judith implemented there ideas but Richard and Fred Windows were negative about it saying that it was just a fad as they had been on these courses and knew more about management and leadership and gained nothing from the courses. Brenda who normally would issue instruction as a manager does, turned herself into a leader my taking on board other ideas from her colleagues and creating working parties to make the working of her department run more efficiently and smoothly. She included Richards’s project staff into her working groups but he was unhappy about this even after Brenda protested and Richard adamantly refused to yield on this matter. Also at the start of the year Richard decided to off load several tasks to his three projects team leaders Ian Campbell, Carole Devlin and Joanne Cassidy. Richard only believed that Carole had the necessary experience and commitment to take on the extra work load issued and he did not consult his other staff nor did he explain the job role that it entailed.
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Newbridge, a recently hired project head manager, meets Zaph at the lab one day. Zaph was an intelligent capable person, who had impressed Dr. Jerrold, the head of the laboratory. Zaph had many ideas and solutions to the different problems the lab was dealing with. Zaph immediately connected with Links, the mathematician, and started helping him with his theories, which Newbridge did not understand very well. Zaph’s dominant personality became apparent to Newbridge, who admired Zaph’s for his abilities but at the same time felt threatened. Newbridge started taking a back seat to Zaph’s ideas and presentations and Newbridge grew apprehensive about his job position at the laboratory. Without discussing his
Title: Using pHydrion paper to test the pH of vinegar, distilled water, laundry detergent, milk, NaOH, Mr. Clean, Baking Soda, Ammonia, 7up, Gatorade, and 4 unknown substances.
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The Grignard reaction is an important synthetic process by which a new carbon to carbon bond is formed. Magnesium metal is first reacted with an organic halide forming the Grignard reagent. The Grignard reaction is the addition of an organomagnesium halide (Grignard reagent) to a ketone or aldehyde, to form a tertiary or secondary alcohol, respectively. For example, the reaction with formaldehyde leads to a primary alcohol. Grignard Reagents are also used in the following important reactions: The addition of an excess of a Grignard reagent to an ester or lactone gives a tertiary alcohol in which two alkyl groups are the same, and the addition of a
Sawyer speaks a lot of truth in this paragraph about how collaboration is what makes all of the amazing innovative teams spark new ideas. Groups should not be self-centered but they need to be empowered by the whole and not its parts. As
Ellen and Jack were both initially appointed as the co-manager to the SI project, however, from the organizational structure perspective, the power was not equally distributed between the two participants: Jack clearly had much more commanding authority than Ellen. With Andrew involved in a distance manner and
Once David had made the decision to form a team, he started by hiring Brian Doyle. Brian was a seasoned consultant and would be able to offer knowledge in high-technology. Although, David had been working on this concept for some time, he failed to ensure all the stakeholders had buy-in. He did talk to a few people within the company, but never had a formal meeting with Whitney to outline his goals for the team. Also, David expected Whitney and Brian to work on any crossover of stock analysis among each other without his assistance. However, due to the past one-on-one working relationship between David and Whitney she was ill prepared for how to deal with Brian or his role within JFP. David compounded this by not providing leadership, guidance or accountability when he