Group Cohesion Flashcards
Cohesion
■ Desire of group members to achieve their goals
■ Forces acting to keep members within the group/ integrated and focussed
■ This can lead to success or can come from success
■ Can be task or social
Task cohesion
Results based Outcome based
Individuals working together to achieve an end result/ common goal
Allows members to make their own contribution
Social cohesion
Working together Interaction
Allows support for each other and trust to develop
Individuals relating to each other to interact in the group
Interaction
In other tasks success depends on everyone completing different roles but having to integrate them all together. This is known as Interaction
■ E.g most team sports like netball, football etc
Coaction
In some sports success comes from people all pulling together. Everyone completes the task at the same time but separately. This is known as Co-action
■ E.g. a Rowing team pulling together
Carrons antecendents
The factors that may affect cohesion
4 main influences on a team that may influence cohesion (carrons antecentents)
■ 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.
Influences of cohesion affected by
Communication
Past Success
Sharing Common Goals
Unequal Pay or Rewards
Personality
Threats to the team
Type of Sport
Size of the group
Similarity of group members
Likelihood of future success
Lack of cohesion caused by
Poor Tactics
Lack of Communication
Misunderstanding of roles or the coaches instructions
Bad timing
Poor strategies
Social Loafing
Steiner a model equasion
Actual Productivity = Potential Productivity- Losses due to Faulty Process AP= PP- FP
ST: actual productivity
The performance of the team during the game, the result: a win
ST:potential productivity
The groups best performance/ maximum capability when at
optimal cohesiveness and is Affected by skills and ability
ST: 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.
Lack of coordination may be caused by - after 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
Individual sports need less co-ordination than co-active sports (a pair) and team interactive sports need most co-ordination.
The ringleman effect
When group performance decreases with group size
