This document discusses the dimensions of group process, including task dimensions and social dimensions. It explains that task dimensions refer to the work the group must do, while social dimensions refer to the relationships between group members. These two dimensions are highly interdependent. The document then covers various aspects of group dynamics that impact cohesiveness and productivity, such as social and task roles within groups, decision-making processes, stages of group development, and unintended consequences like groupthink.

1. Understanding Group Process

2. Task dimensions T he relationship between group members and the task they are to perform. Task refers to the job they have to do and how they go about doing it.

3. Social (often called “process” dimensions) dimensions The relationships of group members with one another -- how they feel toward one another and how they feel about their membership in the group.

5. The Relationship Between Cohesiveness and Productivity Cohesiveness Productivity

6. Cohesiveness in Groups

7. Cohesiveness in Groups

8. Social Roles - Maintain or build group-centered attitudes and behaviors

9. Group Task Roles - Select, Define, and Solve Problems

10. Individual Roles- Attempts by Group Members to Satisfy Individual Needs

11. Patterns of Social Communication that Develop in Groups

12. Decision-Making in the Task Dimension

13. Decision-Making, con’t

15. Unintended Consequences of Experiences in Groups Groupthink (Janis, 1972) The Abilene Paradox (Harvey, 1988) Affective Contagion (LeBon, 1986 )