Group Cohesion Flashcards
What are the 4 factors of group cohesion?
-Desire of group members to achieve their goals.
-Forces acting to keep members within the group/ integrated and focussed.
-Can lead to success or can come from success.
-Can be task or social.
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 other tasks success depends on everyone completing different roles but having to integrate them all together.
What are the carrons antecedents- the factors that may affect cohesion?
Environmental factors:group size, age, geography, contractual obligations.
Personal factors: Group similarity, gener, aspirations/satisfaction.
Team factors: ability, stability, desire for success, shared experiences.
Leadership factors: Leader style, leader-team relationship.
What are the environmental factors that affect cohesion?
Group size, age, geography, contractual obligations.
Time spent as a group, time available.Size of group- social loafing and ringelmann effect.
What are the Personal factors that affect cohesion?
Acceptance of roles.
Do the group aligns in terms of aspirations, work ethic, opinions and values.
What are the leadership factors that affect cohesion?
Leadership style shown by captain or coach (autocratic, democratic, laissez faire).
Leader- team relations.
What are the team factors that affect cohesion?
Desire for success, more success=more cohesion.
Team ability and ability. Team productivity.
Shared experiences/ goals.
What is cohesion affected by?
-Communication.
-Past success.
-Sharing common goals.
-Unequal pay or rewards.
-Personality.
-Threats to the team.
What is lack of cohesion caused by?
-Poor tactics.
-Lack of communication.
-Misunderstanding of roles or coaches instructions.
-Bad timing.
-poor strategies.
-Social loafing.
What is the Steiner’s Model (1972) of Actual Productivity?
Actual Productivity= Potential Productivity- Losses due to Faulty Processes.
AP=PP-FP
Define Actual Productivity.
The performance of the team during the game, the result; a win.
Define Potential Productivity.
The groups best performance/ maximum capability when at optimal cohesiveness.
Affected by skills and ability.
Define Faulty Processes.
Factors that go wrong and reduce cohesiveness.
-Poor coordination or cooperation.
-Not listening to a coach, misunderstood patterns/ roles, motivation, poor cooperation and bad communication.
What is lack of coordination caused by?
-Poor strategies/ tactics.
-Lack of communication.
-Bad timing.
-Lack of understanding of roles.
