Leadership And Teams : Conformity

According to Webster Dictionary, conformity is defined as, “in compliance of rules, laws, or standards.” Mark Twain’s, “Cone-pone Opinions,” demonstrates how society reacts to new conformities; individuals eventually conform to popular ideas and inevitably abandon these ideas for something greater. Twain states, “It is our nature to conform; it is force which not many can successfully resist.” (Twain 2). The reason people conform is not for self-approval, but rather, for the approval of others.

Conformity is often described as behaving the same way as everyone else to fit in. While it often has a negative connotation, conformity is an interesting phenomenon that is present in all parts of human society and can be both good and bad. Conformity is a theme present throughout many literary works, and there have been countless studies on it and its effects on people. Some of the most interesting examples can be seen in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Lemming Condition, and the Milgram Experiment.

Team members must also be respectful of one another, welcome diversity, and establish both trust and accountability within the team. All team members must be willing to decide how they will work together by jointly developing a code of conduct, ground rules, or team principles. These should support the team mission and drive the team toward accomplishing its goal. Banutu-Gomez (2011) indicated, “Also, all the members of an effective group need to be committed to the group’s ideas, goals, and decisions or the team will be unable to get any work done” (p. 60).

Conformity is when a person changes him or herself to fit into a group. In order for someone to do this, he or she usually has to give up one of their personal qualities. It is highly argued over whether this is a good or a bad thing. One such book called Stargirl, demonstrates both the negative, and positive side of conformity. In the novel, author Jerry Spinelli suggests that conformity isn’t necessarily a bad thing, many just use it to become a leader.

Conformity: Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. In the movie, when Judy said that she though that the predator’s attacks were due to genetics, everyone conformed to this idea. The prey started to separate themselves from the prey and conform to this idea.

Conformity is a concept that has been heavily researched in the field of social psychology. Conformity is defined as a change in behavior, beliefs, and attitudes due to group pressure perceived as real (encompassing the presence of others) or imagined (encompassing the pressure of social standards) (Myers, 2010, p. 192). The concept of conformity is a powerful influence on the tendency for people to arrange their thoughts, perspectives, and ideas with others, especially when in a group. This takes away from a person’s individuality because they want to feel accepted by others and therefore, a person will accomplish this basic need of approval through conforming.

Conformity is a form of social influence, when we conform we act and think like members of our group. Often people even alter or change their personal beliefs to match those around them. When we conform we feel pressured to fit in with others, to be a part of the majority. While we may still have contradicting beliefs towards things, we change our behaviors and actions to match what everybody else is

An individual’s need to conform stems from our mental psychology, which is something we cannot usually change because it is in our nature. Guandong Song et al described conformity as “…a subject’s behavior or attitudes following those of the object. The subject is the individual who conforms. The object can be external or internal factors that cause conforming actions, in the form of individuals, groups, organizations,

Conformity, compliance with others, and standards, rules or laws and behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards. Non conformity, Failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing rule or practice. These were the topic we talked about in my English II CP class. We read a lot of articles about nonconformity and conformity and watched videos on YouTube of experiments on the topic; One of the videos we watched was the elevator experiment where they tested if majority of random people would conform or not conform to what the group of actors in the elevator were doing. What they did to test this was they put a group of actors in a elevator facing the back of the elevator with a video camera and see when random people walked in the elevator if they would conform and face the same way the actors were out of pressure. Or if they did not conform. In this experiment majority ended up conforming. At the end of the video all the random people that participated were asked why they faced the same way the group of actors were.

Conformity is the tendency of acting according to social norms in the society. This does not involve person judgment or perception as a decision happens to be dictated by groupings. Studies done by psychologists evaluate further studies that offer informative outlook in relation to conformity, together with factors that influence adolescents.

According to an article by Saul Mcleod in Simple Psychology, “conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or

Conformity is a type of social influence that involves the change in belief or behavior to fit into a group (Mcleod, 2007). Conformity is a common behavior among people, which leads to the research question of this study. The research question of this study is “Will people conform to the actions initiated by more people?” It is important to conduct this study as we aim to know and understand the type of situations that will cause conformity to occur.

In pyschology conformity can be descibed as an indiviual’s tendency to follow the unspoken rules or behaviours of the social group to which he/she belongs to or wants to be apart of. Many psychologists including , Jenness (1932), Sherif (1935) both experimented in psychology, investigating conformity and group pressure. However, perhaps the most famous conformity experiment was done by Solomon Asch (1951) and his line judgment experiment. (McLeod 2007)

Conformity is a vital part of developing a collective identity. While some might debate that conformity restricts a lot of social liberty within individuals; the other perspective views conformity as an integral instrument

In many aspects of our life, it is pervasive to work in a team. No matter in company, school, or another type of team it is necessary to be a part of a team and to achieve a team goal by corporations. People join a team with different personalities, goals, values, beliefs and needs. On the one hand, these differences can be a valuable quality of teams. On the other hand, these same differences inevitably lead to different levels of conflicts as well.