There is a disturbance in the force - click to seeWednesdayIntroduction12:20 PMAs groups develop, members modify formally prescribed group tasks, clarify personal roles, and negotiate group norms. These developmental processes tend to advance through four stages: initiation, differentiation, integration and maturity.
Group ProductivityPeople are more productive when working in groups than when working alone. However, a large body of research indicates that groups of individuals working together are sometimes less productive than the same number of people working alone. Often this falloff in productivity can be avoided if managers work to reduce their negative effects of various obstacles to group productivity.Obstacles to Group Productivity
Process loss is the difference between what a group actually produces and what it might theoretically produce. It is caused by a variety of obstacles to group productivity, the most influential of which are production blocking, group-maintenance activities and social loafing.
Production blocking occurs when people get in each other's way as they try to perform a group task. For example, when one member of a moving van crew carries a chair through a doorway and another member waits to carry a box of clothing through the same doorway.
In order for a group to function effectively, its members must fulfill the requirements of several group-maintenance roles. The roles include encouragers, people who enhance feelings of warmth and solidarity within the group by praising, agreeing with and accepting the ideas of others. Harmonizers minimize the negative effects of conflicts among the group members by resolving disagreements fairly, quickly and openly, and relieving interpersonal tension. Standard setters raise questions about group goals and goal attainment and set achievement standards with which group members can evaluate their performance.
Social loafing can also cause process loss. Social loafing is the result of the choice made by some members of a group to take advantage of others by doing less work, working more slowly or in other ways decreasing their own contributions to group productivity. According to economists, social loafing makes sense from a loafers perspective if the rewards the group receives for productivity are shared more or less equally among all group members. A loafer can get the same rewards that everyone else gets but without having to expend the same personal effort.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Group Development (Go Watch Some More TV and Eat Another Box of Twinkies You Fat Delusional Cunt)
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