Managing Conflict

You work for a company that has just undergone a merger. You have each been chosen to head up your department and merge the two groups into a self-directed work team.

You are a part of a team and separated the responsibilities into the 5 stages of team building: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. You were tasks with  providing an explanation of how you would use the FORMING stage to form your department and merge two groups into a self-directed work team. Please also provide a brief explanation of your reasoning.

Present your findings as a 1-2-page (body of paper) Word document formatted in APA style.