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Avoidance of accountability is one of the major team dysfunctions. Especially in larger organizations, there exist a number of interrelated variables in relationship to any essential outcome.

Therefore, there always appears to be an excuse or another person or group to blame for failure in reaching a key organizational outcome.

In this assignment, you will discuss an experience you've had with a working team or group and how this avoidance of accountability caused major team dysfunction.

Based on your research and experience, in a minimum of 400 words, respond to the following points:

Tasks:

Based on an experience you've had with a working team or group, how has the avoidance of accountability factor impacted the team and its effectiveness?

What impact did this have on the work and goals of the team?

Identify how this avoidance of accountability was overcome by actions taken by a leader or the group or both in developing new levels of accountability. If new levels of accountability were never developed, please describe the steps the team and/or the team leadership could have taken to build accountability and resolve this essential challenge.

Write your initial response in 400 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use a min of 3 scholarly references.