Cohesion in sport Flashcards
Cohesion
Tendency of members to work together to achieve what they want to achieve
Carron’s antecedents
Four main influences on team members
1. Environmental factors
2. Personal factors
3. Leadership factors
4. Team factors
- Environmental factors
Carron’s antecedents
- size of group, larger group more chance of productivity but also more chance of social loafing
- time available
- mix of age and gender - fail to reach common goal
- when groups too large = cliques
- Personal factors
Carron’s antecedents
- similarity of the group members and their aspirations
- fitness
- happiness in their role?
- Leadership factors
Carron’s antecedents
- leadership style chosen by coach or captain is important
- importance how well coach/captain gets on with team
- Team factors
Carron’s antecedents
- team experience both winning and losing and use these experiences to learn from
- longer the team have been together the more chance of cohesion
- if team feels threatened their strong bond and cohesion could eliminate threat
Social cohesion
Interactions of individuals in a team and how they work with each other
Task cohesion
Looks at the end result
Steiner model of team performance
Actual productivity = potential productivity - losses due to faulty processes
Steiner model of team performance
Actual productivity :
Performance of team at end of game (result)
Steiner model of team performance
Potential productivity:
Concerns teams best possible outcome that could happen if everything went perfectly
Steiner model of team performance
Faulty processes:
Things that go wrong
Create two different problems
Faulty processes cause two different problems affecting cohesion:
Motivation and coordination
Motivation problems
- too much arousal affects performance
- lose drive to win so reduction in concentration
Coordination problems
Team fails to listen to coach
Players fail to communicate with each other
Players may misunderstand their roles
