Individual Report:

A truth about life is our interdependence. Everything we do within a group is based on the efforts of people working together. The first task while doing our case study writing we formed a group and share our thought and opinions of the group assignment. We nominated one group leader and try to understand that we are doing our case study assignment in team work which we have to work on a common goal i.e. finished at estimated time. Proper planning and documentation is important for effective for this process. Once we formed our group we focused on communication information gathering from each of team member and provide to all members and award leader: every group members’ name, email address and Student no. Such type of work would help to the team to keep in touch with each other and make the communication more easier. We created yahoo group and nominated one group leader who will help to coordinate our task and develop on every week. The first week we all group members shared our background and knowledge about our case study based on previous courses and experiences. We decided to write a summary about the each case study to do brain storming, research, idea generation, analysis and synthesis that helped us to prepare detail analysis of Royal Mail. We all decided to meet one day in a week (i.e. Tuesday) and discuss about our weekly research report and summary based on the case study. This task help us to ask and to gather more information from our class (Wednesday). We group members always allocate task and duty to all members which helped to take responsibility, accountability for the work.
The main key points of teamwork that we followed in our group assignment are:
Develop a well thought out plan for every week.
Focus on good Communication to reduce conflict in group.
Give reward everybody through out the report writing based on their contribution (Thank you, well done etc.)
Select the appropriate medium for communication (Email, text message, print out)
As a member of group, my main responsibility was to produce different ideas, information and research summary which we used to get together and produce in team every week. I always contribute the team by giving different type of ideas which helped us in the report writing. The main achievement of such a group work that will give a practical knowledge while in the academic period. This type of team work will help every members to be a competitive and creative for future team work, that will help them to take more responsibility and accountability to finish the task in the right time in the team based. It will also give the knowledge about the communication of individual and team based work. There are more advantage in group based work (team based work) however the main critical matter is Time. In a group work, every individual have different sort of work, some of the team member cannot available in some time so in this case it takes few extra time to inform the development of past work however it will help to inspire the member to be more accountable and hard worker.
The use of case study to study technological change in organisations can be described as follows. It will help to give an insight of impact in the process of change and will inspire to develop the thought and knowledge in the different approaches (Open system approach, Sociotechnical approach etc.), the changing world of work (new economy, new organisation and new employee), understand the changing organisational culture and consulting process. It will also focus on the ways in which technological change is managed, the ways of change in organisational structure and culture introduction, and the ways that changes to the human and social systems are managed using the framework of organisational development. The recommendation and consultancy process will influence to find out different methodological approach and focus on different sector like TQM, management of innovation, knowledge management and the errors made in the transforming organisations which will broaden views. The main disadvantage of such case study is, it needs more time to scrutinize on this basis we can recommend. The most of the recommendations are still based in academic theoretical recommendation however it is different in daily basis practical working life in the organisation.