Groups can be formal or informal, and consist of two or more individuals interacting to achieve goals. Formal groups include command, task, and committee groups defined by an organization's structure, while informal groups like friendships and interest groups are created by mutual consent. Groups develop over five stages from forming to adjourning. They have properties like roles that define expected behaviors, norms setting rules for behavior, and status representing esteem. Group behavior refers to the observable attitudes, feelings, and thoughts of a collection of people, guided by rules to develop cooperation and leadership skills while bringing benefits like constructive decision making and generating peace.

1. GROUP BEHAVIOUR

2. MEANING OF GROUP
• Two or more individuals
• Interacting and interdependent
• come together to achieve organizational goals

3. FLOW CHART OF TYPES OF GROUPS
TYPES OF GROUPS
FORMAL GROUP INFORMAL GROUP
COMMAND TASK COMMITTEE INTEREST CLIQUEFRIENDSHIP

4. Formal group : Defined by organisation structure Designated with work
assignments
 Command group: A command group is determined by the organisational chart. It is composed of
the subordinates who report directly to a given manager.
 Task group: Those working together to finish a job or task is known as task group.
 Committee Group: A group of people officially delegated to perform a function, such as
investigating, considering, reporting, or acting on a matter.
 Informal group :Created by mutual consent Not formally structured Not
organizationally determined.
 Friendship: members have one or more common characteristics
 Interest group: A group of individuals that share a common interest in a specific subject
or members.
 Cliques: Groups consist of colleagues or those who commonly associate with each other and
observe certain social norms and standards.

5. The Five-Stage Model of Group Development
1
• Forming:
• Uncertainty about purpose, structure, and leadership
2
• Storming:
• Intragroup conflict as members resist constraints
3
• Norming:
• Group is cohesive with strong group identity
4
• Performing:
• Group fully functional and working toward goals
5
• Adjourning:
• For temporary groups: breaking up

6. GROUP PROPERTY
ROLES : A set of expected behaviour
patterns attributed to someone
occupying a given position in a social
unit.
• Role identity – role’s associated
attitudes and behaviors
• Role perception – our view of
how we’re supposed to act in a
given situation
• Role expectations – how others
believe you should act in a given
situation
• Role conflict – conflict
experienced when multiple roles
are incompatible
NORMS :A set of rules for
human behaviour in the
organization. It is regard
information sharing as
usual, correct and
socially expected work
place behaviour
STATUS: The standing or
position of
an organization in a
system based on social
honor or esteem.
Size: If the goal is fact
finding – larger groups
more effective.Smaller
groups –doing something
productive with that
input.

8. MEANING OF GROUP BEHAVIOUR
Group behaviour :
 Group= collection of two or more person
Behaviour = the way in which an animal or
person behaves in response to a particular
situation.
“The attitudes, feeling and thought of a collection
of people that can be observed or noticed.
It is guide by some rules and
regulations.”

9. Benefits of Group Behaviour
• It develops the spirit of cooperation and teamwork as members can learn how to
work together to achieve a goal.
• It develops good leadership and followership qualities in members.
• Group behaviour helps government in acknowledging peoples' feelings about its
policies and in turn, making the right decisions.
• Constructive group behaviours generate peace in the society.
• The healthy competition among members brings out their best qualities and makes
them more useful to the society.