GROUP MEMBERSHIP ROLES

Question 1

What are task roles for?

Answer 1

Contribute directly to the group’s completion of task or achievement of its goal or purpose.

Question 2

What are negative roles for?

Answer 2

To hinder progress

Question 3

What are maintenance roles for?

Answer 3

For everything to go smoothly and social order

Question 4

What is a group think?

Answer 4

Where everybody wants to reach a consensus without evaluating or analyzing decisions (incudes invalidating members’ opinion)

Question 5

What are unproductive roles?

Answer 5

They don’t contribute to any progress

Question 6

Believes that group is invincible and can’t do wrong

Answer 6

Illusions of invulnerability

Question 7

Dismissal of obvious warnings or negative feedback

Answer 7

Collective rationalization

Question 8

Withholds conflicting opinions, doubts or opinions to avoid conflict

Answer 8

Self censorship

Question 9

Believes righteousness of group’s actions (For the benefit of the majority); not open to any feedback

Answer 9

Belief in inherent morality

Question 10

Time restraint/ significant pressure pressures for a faster consensus

Answer 10

Stressful scenarios

Question 11

What is feud?

Answer 11

Occasional conflict unrelated to the group’s actual work/subject; conflicts that arises in a group