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Chapter 10
Groups, Teams, and Their Leadership (Developmental Stages of…
Chapter 10
Groups, Teams, and Their Leadership
Groups versus Teams
Team
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4-team members often have more differentiated and specialized roles than do group members.team members often play a single, or primary, role on a team.
Group
2-Group members may belong to the group for a variety of personal reasons, and these may clash with the group’s stated objectives
3-group members often can contribute to goal accomplishment by working independently; the successful completion of their assigned tasks may not be contingent on other group members.
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The Nature of Groups
Group: two or more persons who are interacting with one another in such a manner that each person influences and is influenced by each other person
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Group Size:
First, leader emergence is partly a function of group size. The greater number of people in a large versus a small group will affect the probability that any individual is likely to emerge as leader.
Second, as groups become larger, cliques are more likely to develop.
Cliques are subgroups of individuals who often share the same goals, values, and expectations.
cliques generally wield more influence than individual members, they are likely to exert considerable influence—positively or negatively—on the larger group.
Third, group size also can affect a leader’s behavioral style.
Leaders with a large span of control tend to be more directive, spend less time with individual subordinates, and use more impersonal approaches when influencing followers.
Leaders with a small tend to display more consideration and use more personal approaches when influencing followers.
Fourth, group size also affects group effectiveness. Although some researchers have suggested the optimal number of workers for any task is between five and seven.
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Group role
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role Conflict
Role conflict involves receiving contradictory messages about expected behavior and can in turn adversely affect a person’s emotional well-being and performance.
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intersender role conflict when someone receives inconsistent signals from several others about expected behavior
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Group Cohesion
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group cohesion the glue that keeps a group together. the sum of forces that attracts members to a group, provides resistance to leaving it, and motivates them to be active in it.
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A highly cohesive but unskilled team is still an unskilled team, and such teams will often lose to a less cohesive but more skilled one.