MGHB02H3 Lecture Notes - Motivation, Social Loafing, Mental Models
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Group two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve a common goal. Interaction is the most basic aspect of a group. Formal work groups groups that are established by organizations to facilitate the achievement of organizational goals. Designed to channel individual effort in an appropriate direction. Task forces temporary groups that meet to achieve particular goals or to solve particular problems. Committees are usually permanent groups that handle recurrent assignments outside the usual work group structures. Informal groups groups that emerge naturally in response to the common interests of organizational members. Forming at this early stage, group members try to orient themselves by testing the waters . Storming at this second stage, conflict often emerges. Confrontation and criticism occur as members determine whether they will go along with the way the group is developing. Sorting out roles and responsibilities is often an issue. Norming at this stage, members resolve the issues that provoked the storming, and they develop social consensus.
