BU288 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Group Cohesiveness, Social Loafing, Role Conflict
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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 it suggests who is in the group and who is not. Interdependence simply means that group members rely to some degree on each other to accomplish goals. Formal work groups groups that are established by organizations to facilitate the achievement of organizational goals ex task forces and committees. Task forces are temporary groups that meet to achieve a 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. When groups have a specific deadline by which to complete some problem-solving task, we can often observe a very different development sequence from the described above.
