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| Two or more people with common interests, objectives, and continuing interaction |
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| A group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common mission, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable |
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| 4 Mature Group Characteristics |
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1.Purpose and mission
2.Behavioral norms
3.High cohesiveness
4.Status structure |
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| Mission converted into specific agenda, clear goals, and a set of critical success factors |
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| Well-understood standards of behavior in a group, evolve around performance and productivity |
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| Groups with high cohesiveness demonstrate: |
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Lower tension and anxiety and less variation in productivity
Better member satisfaction, commitment, and communication |
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| Ways to increase cohesion |
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Desirable assignment
Opportunity for reward
Severity of initiation (ropes course) |
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| Ways to decrease cohesion |
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Large group size
Intra-group competition/conflict
Domination of one or more leaders |
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| Set of authority and task relations among a group's members |
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| More pressure, good and frequent communication, less stressed, effective control, more satisfied members, groupthink |
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| They accomplish complicated, complex, interrelated or voluminous work |
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| The summer camp effect, emotional and psychological closeness to other team or group members |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| Enjoyment of working together isn't contingent on anything |
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| Closeness achieved through tasks and activities |
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| Conditional positive regard |
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| Like someone because they provide something |
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| Failure of a member to contribute personal time, efforts, thoughts, or other resources |
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| Ways to prevent social loafing (2) |
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1.Provide incentives for group members
2.Use peer evaluations |
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| Mob mentality; Individual group members' loss of self-awareness, sense of accountability, inhibition, and responsibility for individual behavior |
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| Make sure the person knows what they're doing |
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| Process skills *** (EDIT) |
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| Cooperative and helping behaviors *** (EDIT) |
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| Communication skills *** (EDIT) |
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