MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 86: Interrupt

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

Status is a socially defined position/rank given to groups or members of a group by other people. Even the smallest of groups show differences in status of members over time. Status is a significant motivator and has a lot of behavioral consequences when people think there is a disparity between what they think their status is and what other people think it is. Status effects norms power and pressures to conform. People of high-status are more likely to go against norms when they have low group identification. People of high-status are better able to resist conforming to pressures than their peers who are lower in status. A person who is valued highly in a group but doesn"t need/care about the social rewards of the group is able to disregard norms to conform. Generally, bringing members of high-status into a group can improve performance, but only up to a certain extent.