Group dynamics Flashcards

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Group

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A collection of individuals who have a sense of shared goals

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Team

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Have a sense of ‘we-ness”, with distinctive individual roles, structured of communincation and unique norms

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Group formation theory stages
(FSNP)

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  1. Forming
  2. Storming
  3. Norming
  4. Performing
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Group formation Theory: Forming

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Group Members familiarise themselves with each other & set ground rule

Engage in social comperison with the assesing each others strengths and weakness

Looks at belonging on different roles

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Coaches role in Forming

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Give directions

Clarify the roles of the positions

Encourages participation to not befriend the athlete due to the need to become apart of the team

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Group formation Theory: Storming

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Members resist control by group leaders and show hostility

Individuals/cliqques questions the position of authority of the coach

Resist the control of the group

Some may try to aquire impartant roles such as head coach

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Coaches role in Storming

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to embrace the storm of chaos as the athletes do want to be coached

Providing emotional support to help manage the athletes emotions

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Group formation Theory: Norming

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Members work together developing close relationships and feelings of camaraderie

It switches the hostility to cooperation and solidarity

the team works together towards a common goal than their individual agenda

Group Cohesion behins to develop

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Coaches role in Norming

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Coach needs to continue with emotional support

Aim to empower athletes

Be a medium for conflict resolution

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Group formation Theory: Performing

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Team members work towards getting the job done

Work without conflict to achieve shared goals and little objectives

Little need for external supervision

Group is more motivated
Structual issues are resolved
Interpersonal relationships stabilise

Roles are well defined

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Coaches role in performing

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Delegates responsibility to athletes

Empower athletes to lead

Encourage group to be facilitating

aims at no over coaching

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Antecedents: Team / Squad Size (Widmeyer et al., 1990): focus

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Antecedents: Team / Squad Size (Widmeyer et al., 1990): results

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Found
Social cohesion was highest for 6 person team size
ATG-Task decreased from 3 to 6 to 9
Performance was best with 6 team size for 9 team size

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Further Evidence (r value) for team sports (Brawley et al., 1987)

RC, RA, RP

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Role Clarity
.38
Role Acceptance
.49
Role Performance
.43
* Cohesiveness predicted role clarity and acceptance in ice hockey teams (Dawe & Carron, 1990)

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The cohesion performance relationship

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Causation – one event is the result of the occurrence of the other event.

In this case – is it that levels of cohesion effect performance OR performance effects the levels of cohesion

Team cohesion = better performance

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The cohesion performance relationship: statistics

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Meta analysis of 46 studies in sport
164 effect sizes
9988 athletes
1044 teams

Overall relationship between cohesion and performance in sport was “moderate to large”

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How to develop team cohesion

CC & ID

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Increase social Cohesiveness
Improve team communication

Developing Team Cohesion requires creating identity and distinctiveness

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Team goals Selection

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Athletes are provided with a list of performance indicies

from the list athletes indentify the ost important areas to establish their team goals

Subunits of athletes agree on the four most important indicies to be set as goals

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Establishing the target for the team goals

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Each athlete independently identifies the target levels for each of the four teams outcomes

Subunits of five athletes agree on the target levels

the team as a whole then agrees on the target levls

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Coaches remind players of the teams goals

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The goals are posted in the teams locker room

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Evaluation, feedback, and revaluation are essential for team goal-setting effectiveness

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The sport psychology consultant meets with the team to review and discuss the team’s goals after each block of three games.

Modifications to the team’s goals or target levels were made if
deemed necessary.

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Group Cohesion & Effectiveness Carron Brawley & Widmeyer (1988, p.213)

stick together/goals

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“A dynamic process that is reflected in the tendency for a group to stick together and remain united in pursuit of its instrumental objectives and/or for the satisfaction of member affective needs”

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Conceptual Framework of Group Effectiveness (Steiner, 1972)

people and resources

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The relationship between individual abilities or resources on a team and how team members interact

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Actual Productivity

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Actual Productivity
= Potential Productivity - Group Process Losses

Actually Productivity:

the team performance at a given time and refers to the extent of successful interaction

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Potential Productivity
maximum capability of the group when cohesiveness appears at it s strongest.
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Group Process Losses | faulty
Faulty Group Processes the factors which can go wrong with team performance. This can detract and impede cohesion and possibly detract from the potential of the team.
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Group Process losses: Motivation Losses
occurs when team members do not give 100% effort. Could let others carry the team.
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Group Process losses: Co-ordination Losses
occurs when the timing between teammates is off or when ineffective strategies are used
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Ringleman Effect | size
As group size increases there may be a decline of individual effort and eventual productivity caused by social loafing
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Social Loafing | reduction
Reduction in an individual’s efforts when working in a group setting
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Causes of Social Loafing
Free riders, mininimising and Allocation
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Free riders
perception that their effort is (relatively) unimportant for the outcome
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Minimising Strategy
motivated to get by doing as little as possible
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Allocation Strategy
save best efforts for when most beneficial to self
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Antecendanctd for conceptual modal of Cohesion (PELT)
Personal factors -individual orietation - individual differences Environmental factors 0 organizational climat of the team - contractional responsibility Leeadership factors - leadership style - coach/athlete personalities Team factors - Group size - Role clarity
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Consequences for conceptual modal of Cohesion (GI
Group Outcomes - Team Stability - Performance effectiveness Individual Outcomes - Behavioural & emotional consequences - Performance effictiveness