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Group and Team Dynamics (Team - two or more people interact with each…
Group and Team Dynamics
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Team Task
Disjunctive - Team performance is the best group member's performance ( Group performance increases with greater size )
Conjunctive - Team performance is the worst group member's performance ( Group performance decreases with greater size
Addictive - team performance is the sum of all individual performance ( group performance increases with greater size)
Composition
Homogeneous Group - Less conflict, fast team development, better at coordinated and cooperative tasks
Heterogeneous Group - more conflict, longer team development, better at complex tasks that require creative
Heterogeneous teams better at creative tasks------Team members can create a bigger and more diverse pool of information and expertise, Team members can learn new information and skills through exchange and interaction with other members,, Diverse information and skills can interact with each other to create novel solution in a complex situation
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Team Cohesion - The degree of attraction people feel toward the team and their motivation to remain members
Social Conformity
In a group, people tend to behave in a way that they believe will be approved by the majority of the group members to avoid criticism and exclusion
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Social Loafing
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Sucker effect - the tendency to reduce one's efforts when believing that other group members are engaging in social loafing
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Group Polarisation - The tendency of a group to reach a collective decision that's more extreme than the initial positions of individual members.- Risk preference, Attitude strength ----WHY - Social identification and comparison, Confirmation bias
Groupthink
members try very hard to agree with one another that they make mistakes that could easily be avoided , symptoms include - Abilene dilemma
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Intergroup Behavior - we divide people into ingroup members and outgroup members and use group prototypes
Ingroup favouritism - our tendency to favour our ingroup members over outgroup members in evalution and resource allocation
Outgroup hostility - Out tendency to exhibit hostility toward someone simply because they belong to a different group, especially in a competitive context
Intergroup contact theory - Positive contact with a member of another group can reduce prejudice toward the whole group
Optimal conditions of contact. Equal status between the groups, common goals,, focus on intergroup cooperation,, the support of authorities
Depersonalization ( self-stereotyping) - when self-categorized, we base our perceptions and behaviors on the group prototype, not out unique characterisitcs