BUS 326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Group Polarization, Social Loafing, Collectivism

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Business Management
• Course: BUS 326
• Professor: Julia Bear

Document Summary

2+ individ, interacting and interdep who come together to achieve particular objecttives. When are groups superior to individ: for complex problem-solving if. Composition (ppl skills and abilities of team members, team size: processes. Norms (expectations of behave, usually unsaid) and cohesion. Group cohesiveness degree to which group membs desire to remain as part of group: can positively or negatively infl perf, influenced by. Amount of time that membs spend together (incr cohesiveness) Size of group (i. e. smaller tends to be more cohesive) (decr cohesiveness) Cohesiveness can be problematic if group"s goals are contrary to the parent org"s goals. Asch conformity study: line study, originally designed to show limits of conformity, participants conformed on avg in 35% of trials; 75% of participants conformed at least once. Potential pitfalls: groupthink tendency for members of highly cohesive groups to conform so strongly to group pressures regarding certain decisioins tht they fail to think critically and reject potentially correcting infl of outsiders.