Chapter 1, Problem 1.6CE1

A)

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Collaboration:

Group of people working together as a team productively for the following purpose in order to generate ideas and products:

• To achieve common objective.
• Trust each other in the team...

B)

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Use of collaboration to answer the questions:

• The questions can be divided among the team members and after completion, the individual contributions can be handled as a whole.
• For successive collaboration, if one of the team members has produced a document, then in the next step, other team members review the document and then a critical feedback is given.
• Now, the feedback is taken into consideration and the first version of the document is modified accordingly...

C)

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Reason for ineffective collaboration among team members to answer questions:

• Less time might have been spent by students to review and evaluate each other ideas...

D)

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Mention whether not having face to face meeting affect the quality of collaboration or not:

• No, not meeting face to face does not affect the quality of collaboration as various collaborative tools have been developed to help team members to co...

E)

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Jennifer’s failure for effective collaboration:

• Jennifer failed to display effective collaboration, as she was unable to share her ideas and ...

F)

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Steps to increase collaboration skills:

“Yes”, collaboration skills can be improved as system thinking skills are correlated with IQ, which is dependent on visual and auditory skills...