PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Group Cohesiveness, Role Conflict, Social Loafing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Complex social structure designed to achieve a common goal through interdependence. Groups exert influence on individuals, altering our behaviour, beliefs, and emotions: similarly, individuals influence groups. Examples: task forces, project teams, committees, groups. Larger groups report lower satisfaction with group membership. Performance is contingent on size of group and nature of task: additive tasks, disjunctive tasks, conjunctive tasks. Diverse teams more difficult time communicating and becoming cohesive (once developed, equally productive and cohesive) In terms of groups the quality of it would matter with the size of the group. Additive tasks a group is dependent on sum of we are the sum of our parts, each person"s work is contributed (sports) each play their part. Disjunctive tasks require group members to determine a single solution for the entire group. Conjunctive having one bad performance, everyone is affected and become worse (rock climbing) Struggle when there are deep diverse teams. Diverse groups often perform better on innovation tasks.