GROUP DYNAMICS
A group of two people.
What is dyad?
A group whose members share the same characteristics.
What is a Homogeneous group?
A group of people whose results in a work are pooled but has not interacted with one another.
What is a nominal group?
Consist of groups of employees who manage themselves, assign jobs, plan and schedule work, make work-related decisions, and solve work-related problems.
What are work teams?
A conflict that occurs between two individuals.
What is interpersonal conflict?
An event that affects one member of a group will affect the other group members
What is a corresponding effect?
When a group’s performance is equal to the sum of the performances by each group member.
What are additive tasks?
Negative effects of the presence of others on a person’s behavior
What is inhibition?
The other term for parallel teams which consist of representatives from various departments or functions within an organization.
What are cross-functional teams?
Involves a neutral third-party to objectively assess the arguments of both sides to come to an even decision.
What is arbitration?
The need to associate with others with the image projected by people.
What is identification?
One of the factors that increase cohesiveness and when someone distances themself to the group.
What is isolation?
A commonly used, but not effective technique wherein members are encouraged to say aloud any of their ideas.
What is brainstorming?
The four developmental phases teams go through proposed by Tuckman.
What is forming, storming, norming, and performing?
This type of conflict encourages friendly competition, stimulation of new ideas, and increased team effectiveness.
What is functional conflict?
The reasons as why people join a group.
What are common goals and common interest?
A theory that considers the effect of on individual performance when people work together on a task.
What is social loafing?
The type of problems wherein interacting groups outperform nominal groups in.
What are complex problems?
When a team is formed to solve problems but are not given sufficient authority to conduct their business, they may become unsuccessful.
What is lack of empowerment?
This ambiguity refers to lines of authority not being clear and conflict is most likely to result when new situations and relationships develop.
What is jurisdictional ambiguity?
This concept mitigates the negative consequences of isolation.
What is affiliation?
The act of a person doing the opposite because they believe that they are being intentionally influenced to take some particular action.
What is psychological reactance?
The tendency for groups to take more extreme positions than the positions of individual members.
What is group polarization?
Rather than forming in stages, teams develop direction and strategy in the first meeting, follow this direction for a period of time, and then drastically revise their strategy about halfway through the life of the team.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
A type of compromise that is falls within the settlement range of both sides and is deemed beneficial for all parties involved.
What is an acceptable compromise?