Group Basics
A collection of people who share norms, have roles, interact with one another, and pursue common goals.
What is a group?
During this first stage of group development, members meet, become acquainted, and begin learning about the group's purpose.
What is forming?
These are the expected behavior patterns associated with a person's position in a group.
What are work roles?
This refers to the amount of effort that members contribute toward accomplishing a group's work.
What is group effort?
How many hearts does an octopus have?
What is 3?
These groups are officially established by an organization to accomplish assigned tasks.
What are formal groups?
During this stage, disagreements may occur as members compete to establish roles, influence, and expectations.
What is storming?
These are shared expectations that guide acceptable behavior within a group.
What are group norms?
A group's knowledge, skills, and abilities help determine its capacity to accomplish this.
What is effective group performance?
What is the only mammal capable of true flight?
What is a bat?
This type of informal group develops when people form relationships because they enjoy one another's company.
What is a friendship group?
During this stage, members begin developing shared expectations, stronger relationships, and a sense of unity.
What is norming?
A project team spends its entire first meeting arguing about who should be the leader, whose ideas are best, and who should complete each task. Which stage of group development is this?
What is storming?
A group achieves its performance goals, satisfies members' needs, and maintains the ability to work together in the future. This describes what?
What is group effectiveness?
What food can last for thousands of years without spoiling when properly stored?
What is honey?
Name two reasons people join groups besides completing work.
What are security, social needs, self-esteem, economic self-interest, mutual interest, or physical proximity? (Any two.)
During this stage, the group focuses on accomplishing its goals and working effectively together.
What is performing?
This type of group member prioritizes personal needs and interests over the group's goals.
What is a self-oriented role?
It's the first day of a group project. Everyone is awkwardly introducing themselves, nobody knows who is in charge, and the group is trying to figure out what to do.
What is forming?
What type of pasta has a name that translates to “little worms” in Italian?
What is vermicelli?
This type of formal group is often created temporarily to complete a specific assignment or project.
What is a task group?
Put Tuckman's four stages of group development in the correct order.
What are forming, storming, norming, and performing?
This term describes the degree to which group members are attracted to one another and feel united and committed to the group.
What is group cohesiveness?
Your team has a group chat, and everyone agrees to respond to messages within 24 hours. This shared expectation is an example of what?
What are group norms?
What is the national animal of Scotland, despite being a mythical creature?
What is a unicorn?