Group Cohesion Flashcards
What is group cohesion?
The desire of group members to achieve their goals
What is co-action?
In some sports success comes from people all pulling together. Everyone completes the task at the same time but separately
What is interaction?
In certain tasks success depends on everyone completing different roles but having to integrate them all together.
What are Carron’s Antecedents?
Environment factors: group size, age, geography, contractual obligations.
Personal factors: group similarity, gender, aspirations/satisfaction.
Team factors: ability, stability, desire for success, shared experiences.
Leadership factors: leader style, leader–team relationship.
What is social cohesion?
Individuals relating to each other to interact in the group
Allows support for each other and trust to develop
What is Steiner’s Model?
Actual Productivity- The performance of the team during the game, the result: a win
Potential Productivity- The groups best performance/ maximum capability when at
optimal cohesiveness
Affected by skills and ability
Faulty Processes- factors that go wrong and reduce cohesiveness.
Poor coordination or cooperation
How does group coordination affect cohesiveness?
Poor Strategies
Poor Tactics
Lack of Communication
Bad Timing
Lack of Understanding of roles or coaches instructions
Too many performers, the more performers present more coordination is needed
How does the ringelmann effect impact cohesion?
When group performance decreases with group size
■ A study of ‘tug of war’ found that a team of eight did not pull eight times as hard as an individual.
■ Think Social Inhibition
■ Think Anxiety
■ Think Arousal
■ Think Motivation
How does Social Loafing affect cohesion?
Individual loss of motivation in a team player due to a lack of performance identification when individual efforts are not recognised
Social loafers take the easy option and make limited contribution to the cause you can spot lazy players
Why are winning teams cohesive?
Social cohesion helps working together.
■ Successful teams display high task cohesion.
■ Cohesive groups usually successful.
■ Winning teams may not need social cohesion if committed to task, task cohesion is enough.
■ Task cohesion more important, can over-ride social cohesion.
