Group Work Disadvantages

As a part of the academic requirement, tasks like reporting, case study, and research are often given to students. These types of tasks are tedious and they often require ample amount time to complete. It would also require the input of two or more people in order to create a desirable outcome for that certain task. Group work is the most convenient method of doing these types of tasks. Given the benefits of doing these tasks as a group, most students chose working in a group over working individually. Silliman students are given the liberty to choose their desired schedule of classes in the beginning of the semester. Most of these students see to it that they have the same schedule with their friends. These students can choose to work in

Filipinos are accustomed to the “Filipino Time”. It’s like setting our own clock minutes to hours late compared to the World Standard Time. When deciding a certain time for conducting group work, most of the members are late and some are even absent. It is very frequent for a group to have every member present at exactly 10 o’clock in a 10:00 o’clock meeting. Therefore, you must expect that if you have a meeting, your members would be late for at least 30 minutes. Another disadvantage in doing a group work is when members depend on one person to do all the work. Some students tend to leave the task alone to their leader and would only cooperate when the task is almost or already done. Especially when there is uncooperative member inside the group, the other members are accountable for his or her task. Thus, it would decrease the effectiveness and efficiency in doing a task. However, working in a group has lots of academic benefits for students. Working in a group allows students to have more information or ideas than working individually. In doing any academic activities such as report and research, you must gather various kinds of information and data since their tasks must be based on the objective facts. In collecting information, obviously group work is more effective than individual

If you work as a leader in a group, you can improve your leadership skill. Leadership is one of the skills that students must possess and develop since any of them can be given opportunity of becoming a leader at least once. Furthermore, when you work, one of the profession skill you have to possess is leadership skill. So the students must learn how to organize and arrange the things which must be done in order to accomplish the given task and how to conclude the opinions and suggestions of group members. To acquire or develop this skill, working in a group is the best option which the students can