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GROUP BEHAVIOR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Relational identification: connect because of roles, importance to group
      - Collective identification: connect with aggregrate group characteristics
    - - Yes: Ingroups
      - No: Outgroups
- - - - Psychological contract: unwritten agreement between employees & employer -> mutual expectations
    - - Interrole conflict expectations of our different, separate groups are in opposition.
  - - - Emotions
        
        Norms can dictate the experience of emotions
      - Conformity
        
        Adjustment of behavior --> align with group's norms
      - Behavior
  - - - Differences in status characteristics create status hierarchies within groups
      - Sources
        
        Power over others
        
        Person’s ability to contribute to group's goals
        
        Individual characteristics
    - - Status and Norms: high status -> more freedom to deviate from norms.
      - Status and Group Interaction: high status -> more assertive.
      - Status Inequity: perceived inequity -> disequilibrium and can
        -> resentment and corrective behavior.
- - - - More complete information and knowledge
      - Increased diversity of views
      - Increased acceptance of solutions
    - - Time consuming
      - Conformity pressures
      - Dominance of a few members
      - Ambiguous responsibility
  - - - discuss given set of alternatives --> arrive at solution whereby group members tend to exaggerate the initial positions they hold
  - - - Group leader states the problem.
      - Members then “free-wheel” as many alternatives as they can.
      - No criticism
      - One idea stimulates others, and group members are encouraged to “think the unusual.”
    - - Steps
        
        After this silent period, each member presents one idea to the group.
        
        The ideas are discussed for clarity.
        
        Each group member rank-orders the ideas.
        
        Highest aggregate ranking ideas -> final decision.
        
        Each member independently writes down their ideas on the problem.
      - Advantages
        
        Group members are all physically present, but members operate independently.
        
        Permits the group to meet formally but does not restrict independent thinking, as does the interacting group.