Group Performance Flashcards

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What makes a good team/group?

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  • Group unity
  • Shared purpose
  • collective identity
  • A common goal
  • shared purpose
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What is Steiner’s Model?

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Actual productivity = potential productivity - losses due to faulty processes

  • Actual productivity: Team performance at a given time during a game, to extent of successful interaction
  • Potential productivity: Maximum capability of the group when cohesiveness appears at its strongest.
  • Faulty processes: factors that can go wrong
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Name the type and give an example of the types of faulty losses?

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Co-ordination losses: Breakdown in teamwork. These occur when the operational effectiveness of the group as a unit cannot be sustained for the duration of a match.

Motivation Losses (social loafing): When an individual suffers a decrease in motivation during performance causing the player to withdraw effort. EG. when then task is perceived as too difficult.

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What is task cohesion?

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Task cohesion relates to the way team members work with each other to complete a task successfully

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What is social cohesion?

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This involves the formation of personal relationships within the group that provide the individual with support and friendship.

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What are the four factors affecting team cohesion?

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  1. Situational factors (environment , size of group)
  2. Individual factors (Characteristics of team members)
  3. Leadership factors (styles, position and relationship)
  4. Team factors ( collective team goals, communication)
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