GROUP STAGES
Members start communicating their feelings but still view themselves as individuals rather than as part of the team. Members resist control by group leaders and show hostility.
What is Storming?
A role that functions to create and maintain social cohesion and fulfill the interpersonal needs of group members.
What is a maintenance role?
A phenomenon characterized by members of a group who contribute less to the group than other members or less than they would if working alone.
What is social loafing?
Potential for gains in performance or heightened quality of interactions when member characteristics are added to existing ones.
What is Group Synergy?
The team acquaints and establishes group roles. Formalities are preserved and members are treated as strangers.
What is Forming?
A role that contributes directly to the group's completion of a task or achieving its goal or purpose.
What is a task role?
Group pressure where members remain silent and seek to avoid conflict. Decisions are based on the faulty assumption that the group is in agreement.
What is groupthink?
The idea that the group performs quality work as a whole.
What is Cohesiveness?
The team assesses the progress and implements a plan for transitioning roles and recognizing members' contributions.
What is Adjourning?
A role that diverts attention from the task to the group member exhibiting the behavior.
What is a disruptive role?
The specific approach an individual takes when dealing with conflict or disagreement.
Ex. Avoiding conflict style, dominating conflict style, compromising conflict style, etc.
What are Conflict Handling Styles?
Being dependent on another group member to achieve a goal or task.
What is Interdependence?
People feel like part of the team and realize that they can achieve work if they accept other viewpoints.
What is Norming?
Examples include: substantive type, affective type, procedural type, and inequity type.
What are the types of conflict?
Having different parts or things that are connected to something that another member has.
What is Interconnectedness?
The team works in an open and trusting atmosphere where flexibility is the key and hierarchy is of little importance.
What is Performing?
The overall tone and quality of the group members and interactions.
What is Group Climate?