Stages of Group Development

1. SUBJECT - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
PRESENTATION TOPIC – STAGES OF GROUP
DEVELOPMENT,GROUP STRUCTURE,EXPLAINING
WORK GROUP BEHAVIOR
PRESENTED BY - HIRAL SHAH
SUBMITTED TO – DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION,
M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY,BHAVNAGAR

2. Defining and Classifying Groups
Group
 Two or more individuals,
interacting and interdependent,
who have come together to
achieve particular objectives.

4. Stages of Group Development

6. Groups are not unorganized mobs. They have a
structure that shapes the behavior of members.
• Formal Leadership
• Roles
• Norms
• Status
• Size (social loafing)
• Composition (diversity, group demography)
• Cohesiveness
Group Structure

7. Group Structure - Roles
• Formal Leadership
– Leadership that is imposed on the group by the
organization.
– Leaders who derive their power from the
positions they occupy in the organizational
structure.
– Formal leaders may or may not also be the
informal leaders of the groups in which they
function.

8. Group Structure - Roles

9. Group Structure - Norms
Classes of Norms:
•Performance norms
•Appearance norms
•Social arrangement norms
•Allocation of resources norms

10. Group Structure - Status
Group Norms
Status Equity
Culture
Group Member
Status

11. Group Structure - Size

12. Group Structure - Composition

13. Group Structure - Cohesiveness
Increasing group cohesiveness:
1.Make the group smaller.
2.Encourage agreement with group goals.
3.Increase time members spend together.
4.Increase group status and admission
difficultly.
5.Stimulate competition with other groups.
6.Give rewards to the group, not
individuals.
7.Physically isolate the group.

14. Work group behavior
External Conditions Imposed on the Group:
Groups are a subset of a larger organization consisting of the following:
• Organization Strategy
• Authority Structures
•Formal Regulations
• Organizational Resources
• Human Resource Selection Process
• Performance Evaluation and Reward System
•Organizational Culture
• Physical Work Setting

15. Group Member Resources
– Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities - set the
parameters for what members can do and
how effectively they will perform in a group.
– Personality Characteristics - the magnitude
of the effect of any single characteristic is
small, but taking personality characteristics
together, the consequences for group behavior
are of major significance.

16. Group Structure
– Formal Leadership
– Roles (psychological contracts are important)
– Norms
– Status
– Size (social loafing)
– Composition (diversity, group demography)
– Cohesiveness

17. Group Tasks
Consider when to use large vs. small
groups
What type of task? Simple or complex
tasks?

18. Group Decision Making
Strengths - Groups generate more complete
information, increased diversity of views, higher
quality decisions, increased acceptance of a
solution
Weaknesses - Time consuming, conformity
pressures, dominating members, ambiguous
responsibility.

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