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2:05 LTE HDMT1309 Individual assignm... C) 2/3 Ouestion 2 Word Limit: Approximate 300 - 400 words each for Question 2 Roger is a newly appointed departmental manager in the Accounting Department of a company. There are 6 colleagues directly reporting to him, including I Assistant Manager, 2 Supervisors, I Senior Officer and 2 Junior Officers. Although he is new to the department, he is experienced in the Accounting field. Therefore, he would like to propose different kinds of improvement plans to increase the overall performance of the company. However, the suggestions made by him were not well received by his colleagues. They thought the suggestions were too aggressive and not suitable for the company's culture. Therefore, the Assistant Manager and the supervisors had a lot of discussion and conflicts with Roger on his "revolutionary" improvement proposal. Their discussion was focused on the proposal and possible consequences. Most importantly, neither personal nor emotional conflicts were involved in the discussion. (a) Identify the differences between groups and team. (b) As suggested by Tuckman's Group Development Model, there are different stages being recognized. Identify and explain the stage to which the team belongs when Roger has a lot of conflicts with his colleagues when he proposed "revolutionary" proposal to the department? (c) Based on the above description about the conflict between Roger and the Assistant Manager, which kind of conflict does it belong to? Explain how this kind of conflict affect the team performance in the workplace. Page 2