Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Middle Management, Job Sharing, Collaborative Software
21 Oct 2013
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Group two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve common goal. Interaction is the most basic aspect of a group it suggests who is in the group and who is not. Interaction doesn"t need to be face to face or verbal. Interdependence simply means that group member rely to some degree on each other to accomplish goals. Many groups develop through a series of stages overtime, each stage presents the members with a series of challenges they must master to achieve the next stage. These stages are: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. What is our purpose: the situation is often ambiguous, and members are aware of their dependency on each other. Norming members resolve the issues that provoked the storming, and they develop social consensus: compromise is often necessary, interdependence is recognized, norms are agreed to, and the group becomes more cohesive, information and opinions flow freely.
