Kangaroo (Scenario)
Kangaroo Manufacturing Co. has been utilizing groups to improve their manufacturing process. The groups have been starting and stopping for the last 3 years. Some of the most successful groups were together for only a few months and others have been together for over a year and a half with little to no success. Management has requested your consulting expertise in determining why there were varied successes and failures. Your analysis of the system indicates that part of the explanation for the diversity of results could simply be the development stage of the group.
-Group A has been meeting for 11 months and seems to be having some difficulty in getting all 10 of the members together at one time. Several of the middle-level managers have been promoted and transferred to other functional areas or to other facilities of the company. To date, the group has had 18 members at one time or another making up the 10 allocated by management. The group cannot develop a focus on its objectives. Group A is at the ________ stage.

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Group A is at the forming stage because it is still struggling to get all of its members together at one time and has had a high turnover rate. This suggests that the group is still in the early stages of development and has not yet reached the storming, norming, or performing stages.

Kangaroo (Scenario) Kangaroo Manufacturing Co. Has Been Utilizing Groups to Improve Their