Group Behaviour

- There are three main roles that a group member can fill, each with their own variations: task oriented, socioemotional, and destructive.

Amongst the common workplace theories, the theories of motivation and autonomy speak the most relevant to me in my experiences in the workplace concerning group behavior. By being able to maintain a consistent feeling of autonomy in my workplace duties, I have been able to feel empowered and grow to accomplish my responsibilities and learn to incorporate new innovations. Motivation is undeniably linked to the autonomy and group behavior. As I further analyze how these concepts are related, I will further be able to gauge my strengths, passions, and values as a member of a team and organization.

Roles, needs, and diversity are all key elements to the formation of a successful team, and as such affect the functionality of teamwork. A diversity of experiences and personality types make up the framework of any given group. Additionally, these varying personalities take different roles within the team. For example; some team members may be highly energetic, and thus generates forward movement and energy for other members of group, wherein other roles my include harmonizing the team and therefore may be good at reconciliation for aggressive group members. Still others may offer great insight and information for the team, whilst others dominate the group and participate in the team losing focus. Groups work together best when there is a

group member roles a broken down into three functional categories, which helps the structure of a role be productive within the team. The first category one needs to recognize is called the behavior task role; the role will emphasize a common goal that will make a group have the same glide path to accomplish any project. The group maintenance roles are the stage where a relationship is being created with a shared determination of accomplishing a common task. The last role in the functional categories is called the self-centered roles. The roles inhibit only the needs of one individual. Functional categories, roles, are important to understanding because of how each category represents different scenarios in the team.

As we review these pages for the final time sections of Los Angeles are in flames in response to a jury verdict exonerating police whose beating of an African American man was captured on videotape. Supporters and opponents of abortion take to the streets daily. Mexico City searches for answers to a gas explosion that leveled a 40 square block area. The number of men wearing pony tails and one earring and the number of people saying and understanding "yo, dude" seems to be increasing. These diverse actions fall within the area sociologists call collective behavior.

The performance of a team depends not only on the motivation and skills of members, but also on how members are organized to use their skills. The design of work roles and the assignment of people to them determine how efficiently the team carries out its work. Performance will suffer if a team has talented people but they are given tasks for which their skills are irrelevant, or if the team uses a performance strategy that is not consistent with member skills.

adjourning. The beginning phase of team development is forming. This is when you meet your

There are five stages of group development, also known as the Tuckman’s Model, which are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning (Robbins & Judge, 2014, p. 246). The initial stage of forming occurs when the team initially comes together and is establishing its foundation, team members, and understanding the boundaries and parameters (Robbins & Judge, 2014, p. 246). The next stage, storming, is where conflict exists (Robbins & Judge, 2014, p. 246). Individuals are testing the parameters and boundaries created in the forming stage. Norming, the subsequent phase, is when the team is beginning to function as a team, as they collectively work towards the shared goal (Robbins & Judge, 2014, p. 246). The following stage is performing stage where the group begins to act as a fully functional team (Robbins & Judge, 2014, p. 246). There is a clear understanding of how to perform the required duties. The final stage of adjourning focuses on temporary teams where they are completing their tasks, celebrating their success and disbanding

Roles are the parts that individuals play in society. Every single human being on earth has their own unique set of roles. There are two kinds of roles, Ascribed, and achieved. An ascribed role, is a role that people are born into, examples include the role of a grand son, or a Canadian. Achieved roles, are roles that a person has to work to acquire, examples include; a teacher, or a politician. Two roles that I currently possess are a university student, and a daughter.

When we follow through with our objectives in the vision center it helps us get better results. Since every job has to deal with different situations the outcome or result will always be a different one. In our case the happier our patients are the better our final result is. This is an every day thing, not just a monthly thing. When we evaluate what we did the past week it helps us get better and better results each time we use the decision making process.

As we review these pages for the final time sections of Los Angeles are in flames in response to a jury verdict exonerating police whose beating of an African American man was captured on videotape. Supporters and opponents of abortion take to the streets daily. Mexico City searches for answers to a gas explosion that leveled a 40 square block area. The number of men wearing pony tails and one earring and the number of people saying and understanding "yo, dude" seems to be increasing. These diverse actions fall within the area sociologists call collective behavior.

is their reality. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word role as a part that someone or

If cohesiveness is low and performance norms are high, productivity increases, but less than in the high-cohesiveness/high-norms situation. When cohesiveness and performance-related norms are both low, productivity will tend to fall into the low-tomoderate range. (Page 134) 141. Identify the benefits and disadvantages of cohesive groups and ways that you can encourage cohesiveness. To encourage group cohesiveness, you might try one or more of the following suggestions: (1) Make the group smaller. (2) Encourage agreement with group goals. (3) Increase the time members spend together. (4) Increase the status of the group and the perceived difficulty of attaining membership in the group. (5) Stimulate competition with other groups. (6) Give rewards to the group rather than to individual members. (7) Physically isolate the group. (Page 134) 142. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of group decision making. Groups generate more complete information and knowledge. Groups bring more input into the decision process. They offer increased diversity of views. This opens up the opportunity for more approaches and alternatives to be considered. Groups will almost always outperform even the best individual. Groups generate higher quality decisions. Finally, groups lead to increased acceptance of a solution. Members who participated in making a decision are likely to enthusiastically support the decision and encourage others to accept it. Groups also have drawbacks. They are time

The success of an organisation is dependent on its teams’ spirit, how well the teams are grouped, and therefore ho efficient they are. It is therefore important to know the individuals’ strengths and weaknesses. The importance of knowing the strengths and weaknesses is so that the teams/groups can be structured in such a way that these traits blend together. Here is an example: a team has individuals who are outspoken and not so strong with planning, and others who have great planning skills but are shy. It will be difficult to notice that there are those who just have poor planning skills because there strong planners will cover for the weaknesses in the group. When it is time to give a verbal presentation, the outspoken will deliver the speech; therefore balancing out the group’s disadvantages. Moerdyk (2015) refers to this as team composition.

b) Role. The set of rights, obligations, and expectations associated with a status. Roles guide our behavior and allow us to predict the behavior of others. As a student, you are expected to attend class, listen and take notes, study for tests, and complete assignments. This is called role requirement. Roles simplify social interaction, but may also lead to role strain where an individual has trouble determining which role he or she should play. Role conflict takes place when one is forced to take on two different and incompatible roles at the same time.