MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Loafing, Role Conflict, Group Cohesiveness
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Group two or morepeopleinteractinginterdependently to achieve a commongoal. Formalworkgroups groups that areestablished byorganizations to facilitate the achievement. Informal groups groups thatemerge naturally inresponse to the common interests of organizational members. Punctuatedequilibrium model amodel ofgroupdevelopment that describes howgroops with deadlines are affected by their firstmeetings and crucialmidpoint transitions. Additivetasks tasks in whichgroup performance is dependent on the sum of the performance of individual groupmembers. Disjunctivetasks tasks in whichgroupperformance is dependent on the performance of the best groupmember processlosses group performance difficulties stemming from the problems of motivatingand coordinating largergroups conjunctivetasks tasks in which group performance is limited by the performance of the. Roles positions in a group thathave a set ofexpected behaviours attached tothem. Intrasenderroleconflict a singlerole sender provides incompatible role expectations to a role occupant. Intersender roleconflict two or morerolesenders provide a role occupant with incompatible expectations. Person roleconflict roledemands call forbehaviour that is incompatible with the personality or skills of a role occupant.
