Group structure and performance
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Group structure consists of rules, norms, roles, and status that define how groups are organized. It influences group performance, which is a group's ability to complete tasks according to set standards. Specifically, high group cohesion can lower performance if it causes groups to prioritize member needs over external goals. Additionally, highly cohesive groups may conform to norms of lower productivity despite their ability to perform better. Group polarization also affects performance, where groups make more extreme decisions than their average member initially supported.
Group structure and performance
- 1. 1 Group Structure and Performance Presented by DR. RHEA FISER
- 2. 2 Groups Groups are two or more people interacting with each other to accomplish certain goals. Groups form because of mutual attraction Group size (usually between 2 and 20) influences communication and group dynamics
- 3. 3 Group Structure The underlying patters of roles, norms and networks of relations among members that define and organize group An integrated organizational pattern that reflects the totality of the separate parts that inhere in each
- 4. 4 Performance The accomplishment of given task measured against preset known standards of accuracy, completeness, cost and speed.
- 5. 5 Group structure is composed of rules, norms, roles and status Examples: – all groups develop/ maintain social norms – Most groups differentiate member status Group Structure
- 6. 6 Factors Affecting Group Performance • Group cohesiveness can lower performance especially in a work setting. This is because you tend to care more about your coworkers needs than those of your customers loyalty • Group cohesion work groups will conform to a norm of lower production even though they are capable of higher performance
- 7. 77-5 Elements of Group Structure Rules – Specify formal behavior – Can sanction disobedience Norms – Are usually informal and unstated (taken for granted by group members)
- 8. 8 Elements of Group Structure Roles – Set of norms, defining expected behavior Status and Social Power – Status is connected to social power – High status position combined with an approved role behavior establishes power – Group members often occupy multiple roles
- 9. 9 Leaders and Followers – Two types of leaders: task leaders and socio- emotional leaders Task leaders focus on goal achievement Socio-emotional leaders focus on constructing/ maintaining group cohesion Elements of Group Structure
- 10. 10 What is group Polarization?
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