Week8 Tutorial

In this week’s tutorial, my group members and I were given a chance in participating in a teamwork exercise where we were required to build a structure using just a strip of brown tape, a string, a few spaghetti sticks and a marshmallow. The group who build the tallest structure provided placing the marshmallow on the top of the structure without falling apart wins. The purpose of this group exercise is to allow us to experience and have a better understanding towards the previous chapter that is Cultural Approaches. My group members and I are all from different countries thus we have varying cultural backgrounds. As a group with a multicultural background, we started off the exercise by discussing the best way in carrying out the task. Every member was assigned to a task individually according to his or her capability and this demonstrated the Machine Metaphor theory in Chapter One where everyone has a specific task and they are replaceable. This was the initial thought during the early progress while completing the task, but after further discussion, we concluded that this was not a Machine Metaphor. This is because we were open to changes, and we were able to adapt to any changes, provided that every group member has a say in the decision making process when we voice out our individual opinions in regarding the best ways in completing the task. Thus we concluded it wasn’t the Machine Metaphor theory in practice.