The document discusses group dynamics concepts like cohesiveness, conflict, and leadership. It notes that cohesiveness is discussed in Chapter 9 in relation to groupthink, while conflict is covered in Chapter 10 in terms of substantive vs affective conflict and strategies for resolution vs management. Other concepts mentioned include attitudes, goal achievement, participation, consensus, and productivity. The document provides definitions of conflict and lists some potential benefits and risks of group conflict. It then provides prompts for collecting data on conflict or cohesiveness in a group through interviews and video summaries.

3.  Cohesiveness Ch 9
 Group Think
 Conflict Ch 10
 Substantive and Affective
 Resolution vs. Management
 Strategy

4.  Similar Attitudes
 Successful Goal Achievement
 Sense of How to Achieve Goals
 Progress in Goal Achievement
 Perceived freedom to Participate
 Status Consensus
 Well-Managed Conflict
 Mutual Reinforcement

5.  Productivity
▪ To the White Board
 Satisfaction
 Enhanced Agreement

6.  Leadership Style
 Effective Participation
 Individual Commitments
 Group Identification/Symbolic Convergence

7. “Any job is simple if it is broken into small enough parts.”
- Henry Ford.

9.  High Cohesiveness
 Insulation – Isolation
 Lack of Tradition to Inhibit Leadership Bias
 Lack of procedural norms or rules.

12. Mindguards

13.  Incomplete survey of alternatives
 Incomplete survey of objectives
 Failure to examine the risks of preferred choices
 Failure to reappraise initially rejected alternatives
 Poor information search
 Selective bias in processing information at hand
 Failure to work out contingency plans

16.  Collect primary data from someone nearby regarding either the
conflict or the cohesiveness of their group.
 Capturing this interview on video and uploading it will prove very
useful. [You have 20 minutes to return with all data]
 Take notes on anything you can without taking more than 5 minutes of
the respondent’s time.
 Create a short 1 to 3 minute video describing your recommendations
for managing the conflict or cohesiveness (pick 1) in the group.
 Post this video to YouTube and the Facebook Group.
 The video registered with the most YouTube views at the beginning of
next class period wins the points.

17. A struggle involving opposing ideas, values,
and/or limited resources. - Morton Deutsch 1973

19.  Important personal goals
 Multiple relatively equivalent options
 Approach-approach conflict
 Solutions have both negative and positive results
 Approach-avoidance conflict
 Many Ideas Exist

22. Ideas or issues. = Thoughts or concepts. Emotions or relations.

23.  Outlet for Hostility
(release stressors)
 Promote Cohesiveness
 Focus Attention
 Increased Productivity (Especially Substantive)
 Increase Chance for Genuine Commitment

24. Read an academic article related to leadership
an post your thoughts along with the APA
citation of that article. Shoot for a short
paragraph. The post must be on the Facebook
page before the final presentation class period.

25.  Say obvious but difficult things like:
“Communicate more” “Cooperate more” “Its _____’s fault”
 Attack others personally
 Make weak general statements
 Run from conflict
 Hold a filibuster