Kinesiology 1088A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Group Dynamics, Team Unity, Interpersonal Attraction

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1088A/B
• Professor: Bob Larose

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A coach must learn to adjust his decision style as the situation warrants. All coaches instinctively favor one style or another but should be competent at a variety of other styles and be prepared to use them when indicated. A term used to depict the vitality and changing nature or a groups and t identify the field of study that focus on the behaviour of groups. Next to a family, a sports team may be the most influential group to which an individual belongs- it has an extremely strong socializing impact. A sports team offers an ideal setting for research on group dynamics because: It is a natural setting not laboratory setting. It can hold constant many confounding variables (size, rules of conduct, etc) It provides an ideal context for studying cooperation, competition, & conflict. Through its magnitude of statistics, it offers many objective measures of group effectiveness. A collection of two or more individuals.