LE Part 5: The Team Message

Teamwork is, as Dennis perkins writes in his book, a very important element to succeed their common goal in their team and there are some specofoc ways to enhance teamwork and make it effective in a team. he states, "open sharing of information, opinions, and potential consequences of choice" is essential for team members' active engagement. In my personal experience, it was quite difficult for Japanese people. When in junior high school, I was in a boarding school filled with Japanese girls in Hiroshima. I was a leader of an exective committee of a school festival. Since the committee consisted of the 7th, 8th and 9th grader, people ¥, especially 7th graders did not respond when I asked them to give me opinions about what I was trying to do. It is based on "senpai-kohai" realationship, which means Japanese particular hierarchial relationship. Older people have an absolute authories, and younger people should show repect towards them by not showing their oppositions. As compared to Japanese people, American people tend to think an equality is important. When I was in a high school and represented the school team of THIMUN, team members actively discussed what I brought to the team and everyone gave me some opinions no matter how old they were. Therefore, Japanese organizations, in particular, might need to break this barrier, the hierarchial system, although it's hard to break them, at first so that they will be able to enhance their teamwork effectively.