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The leader of three lobbying groups has a plan to introduce permanent, across-the-board, top-down tax cuts for individuals and businesses. He wants to do this to help the economy grow and prevent a recession. Furthermore, it predicts that dollars freed from taxation will create new jobs and wages and stimulate economic growth and an expanding American economy, thereby creating more jobs and increased tax revenue (Perry, 2012). Each lobbyist team is made up of three people and has a specific group where they are pushing their leader's agenda. Furthermore, all teams are essentially task teams with mutual interdependence. Within each team, members all share the same basic values ​​and assumptions; team structure reflects the authority, communication patterns, and responsibility of certain functions in the organization; they have agreed upon methods for carrying out work in the organisation. All of these aspects of each team support teamwork (Dyer, 2007). The first team of lobbyists, Maximilian, Harvey and Stan, are trying to push their leader's agenda in a working group. The Labor group is interested in tax cuts because it will give them more money they need. Furthermore, if the agenda does what it proposes, new jobs will be created; therefore, people in the work group can find work more easily and have more money in their pocket. Because of the working group's interest in the leader's agenda, Maximilian, Harvey, and Stan must be well informed of what the working group wants and needs, as well as how the agenda will affect them. Overall, the message from this group of lobbyists is that their leader's agenda has positive outcomes that will benefit the working group...... middle of paper... am Performance. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. JFK on the economy and taxes. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved from http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/JFK-on-the-Economy-and-Taxes.aspxPerry, M.J. (2012, November 19). President Kennedy responds to Paul Krugman. Retrieved from http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/11/president-kennedy-responds-to-paul-krugman/Peters, G., & Woolley, J.T. John F. Kennedy: Address and Question Period and responses to the Economic Club of New York. The project of the American presidency. Retrieved from http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9057 United States Department of Agriculture. (1995, February). Understanding Rural America: Economic Research Service. Agricultural information bulletin no. 710. Retrieved from http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/understd.htm