10. Group productivity

Question 1

How does social comparison lead to a shift? (IandG productivity)

Answer 1

When you are individual, you are unaware of the group norm, when ideas are pulled together everyone gravitates toward the norm

Question 2

What is groupthink? (IandG productivity)

Answer 2

Thinking as a group, resulting in poor-quality decision-making

Question 3

What are the outcomes of groupthink? (IandG productivity)

Answer 3

• Overestimation of ability
• Close minded members
• Pressure to conform

Question 4

How is ‘the group is more than the sum of its parts’ explained? (IandG productivity)

Answer 4

Social facilitation = the presence of the group makes us work harder

Question 5

How is ‘the group is less than the sum of its parts’ explained? (IandG productivity)

Answer 5

Social loafing = each additional person contributes less to productivity

Question 6

What does Steiners theory of group productivity suggest? (IandG productivity)

Answer 6

For any task, there is some hypothetical maximum potential for productivity and actual productivity always falls short of this due to losses incurred in the group process

Question 7

What is the equation for Steiners theory of group productivity? (IandG productivity)

Answer 7

Pa = Pp - L