{"id":186,"date":"2016-08-21T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2016-08-21T19:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T23:23:29","slug":"subdivided-for-a-united-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talesofnorthwinds.com\/blog\/digital-collab\/subdivided-for-a-united-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Subdivided for a United Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though I have never paid much attention to it until recently, I’ve been in many groups. Besides the obvious family group and school groups that I have been participating in for most of my life, I have also been in volunteer groups, work groups and many other groups with different objectives and commonalities. The more interesting thing that I want to focus on, however, is the concept of \u00a0small teams working together within bigger groups in order to accomplish a unified task. As mentioned in A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction<\/a><\/em>, the concept of small group interaction is defined as “the process by which three or more members of a group exchange verbal and nonverbal messages in an attempt to influence one another.” I find this so fascinating because it is amazing how much can be accomplished by individuals working together like a well-oiled complex machine. To better explain what I’m talking about, here’s an example of my past experiences in small group interactions.<\/p>\n

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Anyone who’s ever gone to a fast food restaurant normally just goes inside the store or through the drive-thru, orders and consumes food and leaves afterwards. They never fully experience all of the work it takes for them to be able to get their food. After working at Bojangle’s<\/a>, a restaurant that specializes in fried chicken and freshly made biscuits, I’ve obtained a better appreciation and understanding of that field of work. Within the store, you have the general manager, who runs the operations of the store and makes sure that everything and everyone is working and efficient. Under them, there are shift leaders who are over smaller groups of workers, each making sure that their group is doing their job as efficiently as possible. There are normally four groups that run side-by-side with one another, the kitchen crew, the front line, the drive-thru and the dining room staff.<\/p>\n

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This is only a portion of the people required to run a busy fast food restaurant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The kitchen crew normally handles everything related to the main reason anyone comes to Bojangle’s: the food. They prep and cook everything as it is needed and tries to make sure that the store doesn’t run out of cooked food to sell. The front line and drive-thru groups take the food that the kitchen crew makes, and sells and packs it for the people who visit the store looking to eat. While the two groups work independently of each other, they share similar tasks and require the work done by the kitchen crew in order to operate. All communication starts with the person who takes the customer’s order and the rest of the work is done by other people in the two groups who make the orders and hand them to the customers. Lastly, the dining room staff ensure that the store stays clean and restocked on a utility level, making sure that customers are able to enter the store and have a pleasant experience that isn’t disturbed by any potential grossness or a lack of napkins and condiments. While the upkeep of the store is an important job in its own right, the dining room staff wouldn’t have much to do if the aforementioned groups weren’t handling their jobs properly and the other groups wouldn’t be able to conduct business if customers decided to avoid the store because it was unclean.<\/p>\n

In the end, customers only ever probably interact with maybe two to five of the full team required to give them what they want. The reason I’m saying all of this is simple and applies to more than just Bojangle’s. Companies require people to work for them in order to be successful; but even with having the necessary manpower, success isn’t guaranteed unless each task is delegated to a group to handle. A single person can only do so much, but if you have that single person team together with other people for a unified goal, much more can be accomplished. With small group interactions working together inside of bigger organizations, the sky’s the limit on what that organization can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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