BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Inhibition, Group Polarization, Team Sport
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Social facilitation: the tendency to perform tasks better or faster in the presence of others: when you perform better in the presence of others than if you were on your own. Social inhibition: the tendency to perform tasks worse or slower in the presence of others: opposite of social facilitation, you perform better when you"re on your own. With a confederate present who was watching them, Organization: social inventions for accomplishing goals through group effort. A group consists of two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve a common goal: two or more people, a common goal, interdependence. Group members rely to some degree on each other to accomplish goals: example: to introduce a new product. Cross-functional teams different functional specialties working towards a common goal: r&d, marketing, sales, manufacturing. Informal groups are groups that emerge naturally in response to the common interests of organizational members. That is, people (aka managers) have a romantic notion regarding teams.
