Groups form when two or more individuals interact regularly, are aware of one another, and see themselves as part of the same group. People join groups for several key reasons: closeness and bonding with others, achieving common goals through collaboration, and fulfilling personal objectives like prestige and importance. Groups in the workplace include both formal groups set up by management and informal groups that emerge to meet personal needs. What makes an effective group includes cohesiveness, clearly defined roles and norms, a sense of status among members, and homogeneity. Joining a group provides benefits like increased productivity, skills development, self-knowledge, and fulfilling social and growth needs.

1. Why Do People Join in Groups

2. What is a Group
Two or more people who interact with one another,
are aware of one another, and think of themselves
as being a group.
A collection of individuals who have regular contact
and frequent interaction, mutual influence, common
feeling of camaraderie, and who work together to
achieve a common set of goals.
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3. Reasons for Joining a Group
Closeness--Being members of the same group
builds ties among people.
Common goals--Moral and practical support is
gained by working with others who have the same or
similar goals.
Achievement of personal objectives--Time spent
with group members can be enjoyable, enhance a
person’s prestige, and satisfy people’s desire to feel
important.
Accomplishment--accomplishing things as part of a
group that they could not accomplish on their own.
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4. Groups in the Workplace
Functional groups--fulfill ongoing needs in the
organization by carrying out a particular function.
Task groups--set up to carry out a specific
activity, and they disband when that activity has
been completed
Formal groups--Groups set up by management
to meet organizational objectives
Informal groups--Groups that form when
individuals in the organization develop
relationships to meet personal needs
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5. What makes Group
Cohesiveness
Roles--Patterns of behavior related to
employees’ positions in a group.
Norms--Group standards for appropriate or
acceptable behavior.
Status--A group member’s position in relation to
others in the group.
Cohesiveness--The degree to which group
members stick together.
Homogeneity--The degree to which the
members of a group are the same.
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6. Benefits Of Joining a Group
Increased productivity and performance: A broader
range of skills can be applied to practical activities and
sharing and discussing ideas can play a pivotal role in
deepening your understanding.
Skills development: being part of a group will help you
develop your interpersonal skills such as speaking and
listening as well as team working.
Knowing more about yourself: collaborating
with others will help identify your own strengths and
weaknesses.
(for example, you may be a better leader than listener,
or you might be good at coming up with the 'big ideas' but not
so good at putting them into action).
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7. Social needs-- Determine whether people are
likely to be satisfied with individual jobs or work
groups
Growth Needs--Affect whether people will be
satisfied by traditional work designs or by
enriched, self-regulating forms of work
After all We know “United we stand-
Divided we fall” and is well proved.
Benefits Of Joining a Group
Continued…
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