COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Role Conflict, Hazing, Group Cohesiveness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMMERCE 1BA3
• Professor: Frances Tuer

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Additive tasks - the more members the better. Disjunctive tasks - the best member can carry the team. Conjunctive tasks - the worst member greatly affects the team. Surface - level diversity (e. g appearance), can be overcome once performance is shown. Deep - level diversity (e. g personality differences, moral and value differences) Group diversity and social integration (e. g wariness of differences) Double - edged sword - differences can bring new ideas in. Norms - shared expectations of group behaviour ( can be positive or negative ) Remember that : ( belief + value ) leads to ( attitude ) leads to ( behaviour ) Equity - people get what they deserve. Equality - everybody gets the same thing. Role - position in role with a specific expected behaviour. Assigned roles - role group has designed you. Emergent roles - role that they have taken initiative on ( e. g such as the peacemaker of the team )