Managing to Collaborate: B325 Assignment
Answer the following TWO QUESTIONS by referring to course material and examples from your professional or personal experience.
Question 1 (50 Marks)
All successful collaborations aim to achieve collaborative advantage. This, however, is not easily realised. Based on the course material, and using examples from your professional or personal life:
- Discuss the bases for achieving collaborative advantage;
- Discuss the types of goals that need to be set to achieve collaboration aims;
- Outline when these goals might lead to collaborative inertia and identify which might lead to harmful outcomes. 600 words.
Question 2 (50 Marks)
Positive outcomes are not always an end result for collaborations. Collaborations might be set on two-legged outcomes from the start. Accordingly, setting aims is not enough by itself. Managing aims is regarded as essential for better collaborative results. In the context of a local organizational collaboration of your choice, discuss the importance of managing aims and how the presence of some elements might generate negative episodes that a collaboration can face. Support your discussion with examples. 600 words.