GROUP DYNAMICS AND COHESION

Question 1

What is cohesion?

Answer 1

The tendency for individuals to work together to achieve their goals

Question 2

What is co-action?

Answer 2

When the members of a team do the task at the same time but separately

Question 3

What are Carron’s antecedents?

Answer 3

Environmental factors, personal Factors, leadership factors, team factors

Question 4

What awesome environmental factors?

Answer 4

Size of group, time available

Question 5

What is the effect of a large group size?

Answer 5

Larger groups can be more productive but there is a greater chance of social loafing/reduction in motivation and the ringlemann effect occuring, mix of age and gender decreases cohesion

Question 6

What is the effect of personal factors?

Answer 6

Similarity of group in aims, opinions, value, fitness, role in the group

Question 7

what is the effect if leadership factors?

Answer 7

Choice of leadership style and how well the coach/captain get on with the group members

Question 8

What is the effect of team factors?

Answer 8

The effect of leadership factors
Choice of leadership style and how well the coach/captain get on with the group members
The effect of team factors
Success leads to higher cohesion, the longer the team has been together the higher their cohesion will be, a threat from another team can cause a team to bond

Question 9

What is task cohesion?

Answer 9

Individuals working together to achieve an end result

Question 10

What is social cohesion?

Answer 10

Individuals relating to each other to interact in the group

Question 11

What is a negative effect of social cohesion?

Answer 11

Can cause cliques to develop in the group

Question 12

What is Steiner’s model?

Answer 12

Actual productivity = Potential productivity - Faulty processes

Question 13

What is potential productivity?

Answer 13

The best performance possible, based on player ability and group resources

Question 14

What are coordinated problems?

Answer 14

Players failing to listen to instructions or misunderstanding roles

Question 15

What is social loafing?

Answer 15

Individual loss of motivation due to a lack of performance identification

Question 16

What are causes of social loafing?

Answer 16

Lack of confidence, not enjoying their role, poor leadership/lack of incentive and praise from leader, poor fitness, goals are too general

Question 17

What is the Ringleman Effect?

Answer 17

As group size increase, performance decreases

Question 18

What are methods to avoid social loafing?

Answer 18

Coaches recognise player’s efforts and reward them, assigning specific roles, using statistics to praise, realistic and specific goal setting, video analysis to highlight performance, varying practice to maintain motivation, keep fitness high