The document discusses the significance of groups in educational institutions, defining a group as individuals working together to achieve common objectives. It categorizes groups into formal, task, and informal types, outlines the process of group formation and stages of group development, and describes group norms that guide member behavior. Additionally, it illustrates the dynamic nature of groups, emphasizing interpersonal attraction and communication as key elements of successful group interaction.

1. BY,
VEDANTHAVINOD
ASSISTANTLECTURER
CCON-MYSORE

2. BY,
VEDANTHA VINOD
ASSISTANT LECTURER
CCON-MYSORE

3. CONTENTS TO BE DISCUSSED:-
Introduction
Meaning
Definition
Types of groups
Group formation and development
Process of group development
Stages of group development
Group norms

4. TODAY CLASS
Introduction
Meaning
Definition
Types of groups

5. INTRODUCTION
•A group consists of a number of individuals
working together in order to achieve a common
objective.
•Groups and group activities have significant impact
in any educational institution and plays a crucial
role in achieving the mission statement.

6. MEANING
A group refers to two or more individuals who
interact regularly with each other in order to
accomplish a common purpose or goal.

7. DEFINITION
According to Marvin Shaw,
“A group normally comprises of two or more persons
who interact with one another in such a way that each
person influences and gets influenced by each other
person in regard to their behavior”.

8. TYPES OF GROUPS
An educational institution is usually comprised of
the following three types of groups:

9. FORMAL
GROUP
TASK GROUP
INFORMAL
GROUPTYPES OF
GROUPS

10. FORMAL/ FUNCTIONAL GROUP
• These are formed by the institution in order to
accomplish different educational purposes.
• According to AL Stancombe, a formal group is said
to have a social arrangement pattern and the
activities of group members are planned to achieve a
common objective.

11. TASK GROUP
• This is formed by an institution to achieve a
targeted purpose within a specified time frame.
These groups are transient in nature and members
of the group strive hard to develop a solution to
that specific problem or complete the purpose.

12. INFORMAL GROUP
•According to Keith David, “Informal group is mainly
composed of a network of persons and social
relations which is not established or required for an
organization”.
Informal groups are of following types:

13. Interest group: Here the group members are
working for a common non-academic goal.
Membership group: Here the individuals in the
group belong to the same discipline or field and
are familiar to each other.

14. Friendship group: the individuals would be usually
of similar age, views, tastes and opinions. These
groups can either exist inside or outside the
organization.
Reference group: Here the individuals shape their
ideas, beliefs, values in order to draw support from
the group as such.

15. CONCLUSION
Meaning
Defintion
Types Of Groups

16. ANY DOUBTS ?

17. THANK YOU

18. GROUP FORMATION AND
PROCESS OF GROUP
DEVELOPMENT
BY,
VEDANTHA VINOD
ASSISTANT LECTURER
CCON-MYSORE

19. GROUP FORMATION AND
DEVELOPMENT
A group is a dynamic structure because individuals
always have freedom to join and leave the group
any time and they also have freedom to change
their tasks based on their wish.

20. •For obtaining a clear understanding of formation
and growth of the group it is mandatory for
administrators to identify the motives which made
the individuals to join a group. Some of the
common motives are discussed below:

21. INSTITUTIONAL MOTIVES TO
FORM GROUPS
Structuring and categorizing the educational
activities in a logical manner can be done by
forming functional and task groups.

22. PERSONAL MOTIVES TO JOIN
GROUPS:
There are various personal motives, which affect the
enrolment of a member in a group. Some of these
are mentioned in the following figure

23. Group
formation
Interpersonal
attraction
Support for
group goals
Instrumental
benefits
Need for
affiliation
Interest in
group
activities

24. PROCESS OF GROUP DEVELOPMENT
•Newly joined members of a group are usually
unfamiliar to each other and therefore remain
ignorant regarding the personalities and attitude of
group members .
•These process of group development are explained
as follows:

25. Mutual
acceptance
Communication
and decision
making
Motivation and
productivity
Control and
organization

26. 1. Mutual acceptance: In this first phase, members of the
group try to become familiar with one another and
explore the acceptable and unacceptable interpersonal
behavior) exhibited by the self and by the other
members of the group.
2.Communication and decision-making: During the
second phase, group members share their opinions and
formulate the group's goals, norms and strategies.

27. 3. Motivation and productivity: The third phase is
characterized by attaining mutual consensus among group
members regarding the goals and strategies formulated in
the previous stage.
4. Control and organization: Fourth phase is characterized
by the performance or working toward the goal. Group
members perform the roles they have accepted and guide
their group toward attaining the stipulated goal.

28. STAGES OF GROUP
DEVELOPMENT
BY,
VEDANTHA VINOD
ASSISTANT LECTURER
CCON-MYSORE

29. STAGES OF GROUP
DEVELOPMENT
•During the process of development, there are five
stages through which a group has to dynamically
navigate in order to attain the desired functionality
(Fig).

31. FORMING
This is the first stage of group development
where individuals form the group as per their
felt needs, common interest or mandated
work assignment.

32. STORMING
This stage is characterized by formation of
multiple groups within the main group based
on familiarity or prejudices. The members of
the group get to know each other and share
their ideas.

33. NORMING
After the brain storming stage, group
members actively discuss on the basis of
multiple inputs and formulate group norms,
discipline criteria and action plan.

34. PERFORMING
This is the fourth stage of group
development where members get involved into
goal , task and output. Each member
contributes to the best of their ability toward
goal attainment.

35. ADJOURNING
This is the last stage of group development
also known as mourning, where the group
members disperse after the purpose of the
group is achieved.

36. GROUP
NORMSBY,
VEDANTHA VINOD
ASSISTANT LECTURER
CCON-MYSORE

37. GROUP NORMS
•It refer to behavior standard, beliefs, attitudes,
traditions and expectations shared by group
members.
•According to Michael Argyle, group norms are the
rules or guidelines of accepted behavior which are
recognized by a group and are used for monitoring
the behavior of its members.

38. TYPES OF GROUP NORMS:
There are two types of group norms-behavioral
norms and performance norms.
1. Behavior Norms
2. Performance Norms

39. BEHAVIOR NORMS:
Behavior norms are rules that determines how
individuals act while working on a day-to-day basis.
Examples include treating the clients with smile, how
to groom one selves and preparing for a discussion.

40. PERFORMANCE NORMS
Performance norms are rules that standardize
faculty working frames and strategies such as
number of hours taught in the college/clinical areas.
Performance norms for faculty are essential in an
educational institution.

41. DISCUSSED CONTENTS:-
Introduction
Meaning
Definition
Types of groups
Group formation and development
Process of group development
Stages of group development
Group norms

42. ANY DOUBTS??

43. THANK YOU