How does diversity affect a team? Since each class in the University of Phoenix (UOP) online format requires working within a learning team, team diversity is an issue student's deal with all the time. In this course, learning team C is made up of three members. We have each lived our lives in different ways, but have all reached a plateau in our careers that has lead us to UOP to obtain our bachelor's degrees in accounting. In what follows, we will discuss the impact of diversity as it relates to our team in the areas of geographic differences, personality traits, age, and occupation.
When people come together as a team to accomplish specific tasks communication can be very difficult, but it becomes especially difficult when everyone in that team is scattered across the country. For us, team C, communication has been difficult because we are all on different time zones. Trying to set up team meetings has not been a very successful task for us. After two unsuccessful attempts at setting up meetings to discuss how to tackle our first assignment, two of us just went ahead with planning it even though all were not all present to agree. Luckily when the ideas were presented to our other team member, there was no problem with the decisions that were made. Geographical differences started out being a problem for us until we just faced the situation as it was and made a plan for it to no longer be a problem. We chose to set a permanent, weekly meeting day and time that everyone agreed on to discuss our assignments and anything else that might come up.
Something that may come up as an issue in our meetings is personality trait differences. Members of a team should strive to understand the different team members' basic personality attributes. The ...