COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Loafing, Inverse Relation, Ingroups And Outgroups
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What are the effect of working in groups: have a small group of people from diverse backgrounds, all students from the same company/class to plan. The(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374) eithe(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)k togethe(cid:396), does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake a diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g individually 1+1+1+1=4. Or they can make it worse 1+1+1+1=2. Nobody is listening to each other, not collaborating so(cid:272)ial loafi(cid:374)g. e(cid:454)pe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g less effo(cid:396)t i(cid:374) a g(cid:396)oup. It"s (cid:374)ot as effective as individuals working alone. Or they can work together cohesively to share ideas that one cannot think of as an individual. 1+1+1+1=7 social facilitation, spurring each other on. Group size: group #s range from approx. More time needed to reach decisions have to get through more people for consensus too many different opinions. Productivity: measure productivity by quality of decision, etc, negative linear relationship between # of people and productivity. Essentially, the more number of people in a group, the productivity tends to go down.
