Cohesion Flashcards
Cohesion
Desire of group members to achieve their goals
Can be task or social
Co action
Everyone completes the same task at the same time but separately.
Interaction
Everyone completing different roles but having to integrate them all together
Carrons Antecedents
Factors affecting cohesion
4 types of carrons antecendents
Environmental factors - group size, age, geography
Personal factors - group similarity, gender, aspirations
Team factors - ability, stability, desire for success
Leadership factors - leader style, leader-team relationship
Takes cohesion
Individuals work together to achieve common goal
Social cohesion
Individuals relating to eachother to interact in a group
Things affecting cohesion
Communication Past success Sharing common goals Likelihood of success Type of sport
Lack of cohesion is caused by :
Poor tactics Lack of communication Misunderstanding roles or coaches advice Bad timing Poor strategies Social loafing
Steiners model
Actual productivity = potential productivity- losses due to faulty processes
Actual productivity
The performance of a team during a game, the result ; win
Potential productivity
Groups best performance/maximal capability when at optimal cohesiveness
Faulty processes
Factors that go wrong and reduce cohesiveness
Ringleman effect
When group performance decreases with size
Social loafing
Individuals loss of motivation due to lack of performance identification
