Cohesion Flashcards
Cohesion
- Desire of group members to achieve their goal
- Forces acting to keep members within the group integrated and focused
Co-action
In some sports success comes from people all pulling together. Everyone completes the task at the same time but separately
Interaction
In other sports tasks success depends on everyone completing different roles but having to integrate them all together.
Describe the four factors that may affect cohesion in Carron’s antecedents
- environmental factors: group size, age, geography, contractual obligations
- Personal factors – group similarity, gender, aspirations and satisfaction
- Team factors – ability, stability, desire for success, shared experiences
- Leadership factors – leader style, leader-team relationship.
What is Steiner’s model
Actual productivity =
potential productivity - losses due to faulty processes
What are Faulty Processes
In Steiner’s Model
Factors that go wrong and reduce cohesiveness E.G. – Ringleman affect – social loafing – motivational problems – coordination problems – communication and interaction
What is the Ringleman effect
When group performance decreases with group size.
What is social loafing
Individual loss of motivation in a team player due to a lack of performance identification when individual efforts are not recognised.
Social loafing to take the easy option and make a limited contribution to the cause you can spot lazy players.
Causes of social loafing
- Low confidence – lack of fitness – lower ability – injury – negative attitude – failure to understand the role – I believe your effort won’t change the result
How to avoid social loafing by improving cohesion
- Highlight individual performance – statistics – peergroup pressure – develop social cohesion – friendships – praising rewarding behaviour – raising individuals confidence – encouraging group identity – punishing social loafing – setting achievable, progress goals rather than outcome goals
