Abstract
The ability to operate as a group in workplace has become a key requirement in the globally connected workplace. As such, higher education institution needs to provide collaborative work experience in order to prepare their graduates to be ready for real world organization. In most situation, students learn to work collaboratively in an online environment via Wiki. This free tool allows student to write, edit and format manuscript in online manner. However, when working in a group, students does not always prepare to cope with the group dynamics. Therefore, students encounter challenges and difficulty to operate as a group. The aim of this study is to investigate whether students develop unique behaviour when trying to complete the group assignment. The research result reveals that group assignment does not always be a perfect working environment and they as consequences they develop several group behaviours in order to develop unique behaviour in order to be successfully complete their group task.
Highlights
Lecturer usually introduce the collaborative skill for their students through group work assignment
Students are assigned in the group to work on a certain task; often without prior knowledge to cope with the group dynamics [1, 2]
Data collected from the questionnaire combined with the informal observations and students’ log book were analysed to get insight into the group dynamics and students’ roles and behaviours during assignment completion
Summary
Lecturer usually introduce the collaborative skill for their students through group work assignment. Students are assigned in the group to work on a certain task; often without prior knowledge to cope with the group dynamics (for instance: dispute, weak leadership, unbalance work, freeriding) [1, 2]. As a result, this group work assignment does not always end up with a happy story, instead it can give students traumatic experience that possibly prevent them to behave properly in their future employment. The result from this questionnaire along with class observation conducted during semester were analysed.
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