2. Lecture review
• Power of groups
• Perceptions and attitudes of members
• Behaviour of individual member
• Group influences on
• Social facilitation
• Social loafing
• Tendency of individual to exert less effort when working as part of a
group as compares to working alone
3. Lecture review
• Expected behaviour in groups
• Formal vs informal
• Groups are developed to
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Achieve given tasks
Predict behaviour
Reduce problems
Main values and identity
• Norm are developed through
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Explicit statement
Critical events
Patterns of behaviour
Transferable behaviours
5. Task from pre-tutorial work
1.
Review your own experience of working in groups to date
(eg ICE, Understanding and Managing People study groups,
social groups, work teams
• In what ways has it been a positive and negative experience for
you?
• Can you explain this in terms of social loafing, social facilitation,
norms and sanctions, conformity, conversion, deindividuation,
Ringlemann effect, Groupthink, Risky shift syndrome and so
forth?
• What could you and your team members do to counter the
negative effects of group working?
6. Task from pre-tutorial work
2.
What factors influence the cohesiveness of work groups? Give
examples by referring to a work group to which you belong, or have
belonged
3.
Can you provide an example or two of where groups/teams have
been able to perform much better than the quality of the individual
members? (Think about sports teams or a work team for instance).
• Using your example, analyse the advantages of group decision making in
that context.
• Are there any disadvantages in your chosen context?
4.
Can you think of an event in which a group/ groups of seemingly
intelligent people made really stupid or dangerous decision?
• Look at the reasons for this – were there deliberate attempts to stop
anyone contradicting the chosen solution? Indeed, were any
alternatives explored at all?
• What could the group (and/or the wider organization) have done in
order to counteract this situation
