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1. The newly appointed head of emergency services in a large metropolitan city strongly believes that heterogeneous (or diverse) teams are more effective than homogeneous teams. He wants to put this into practice by selecting highly skilled people with diverse demographics, backgrounds, and experiences on ambulance and other emergency service teams. Use the material and readings on group dynamics (Week 5) to answer the following.
a. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of this regarding how the team members would work together and get their job done?
b. After a year on the job, he decided to put to frequently rotate the members on these teams, so they would constantly have new/different people to work with. How do you see this impacting their work?
c. How might companies make better use of teams?
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Both the homogeneous and heterogeneous teams have benefits and disadvantages, hence
they can be applied in different situations. The heterogeneous team is often the most effective
when it comes to solving a complex project or solving a problem that requires innovate thinking
or solution. Having people from different backgrounds with a mixture of abilities, life experiences,
and cultures among others work together can create a stronger dynamic within a group providing
such as a group with people that see opportunities and problems in different perspective and a
broader knowledge base. Based on these attributes of a heterogeneous team, it can be beneficial to
some extent to the emergency team. However, due to the fact that emergency services or response
require a high degree of cooperation and coordination that often lack in heterogeneous teams, the
homogeneous team might be more effective. This kind of team tends to speed up work as it avoids
misunderstanding since the teams have an easier time to comprehend each other nonverbally and
verbally, hence providing a high degree of coordination. In addition heterogeneous te...