Groups and Team Work Flashcards
How does a person’s work ethic change when placed in a group?
Social facilitation- Works better in a group
Social inhibition- Works worse in a group
Three kinds of interdependence
Task interdependence- Let’s work together to complete this
Goal interdependence- Have the same end goal
Outcome interdependence- Work together to get a reward
TYPES OF TASKS
Addictive- group output is equal to the sum of individual output- Improves with an increase
Disjunctive- Best worker has the biggest impact- Improves with an increase
Conjunctive- Worst worker has the biggest impact- Worse with an increase
Compensatory- Average of all workers- Limited by the average
Group development
Forming Storming Norming Performing Adjourning
Member diversity- Pros and cons
Pros Cons
- Creativity - Need time
- Problem-solving - Increase in conflict
- More problem-solving - Miscommunication
When to use a homogeneous group?
- A short amount of time
- Need cooperation
- Simple task
When to use a diverse group
- Lots of time
- Need creativity
- Complex problem
What causes process losses?
Social loafing- Not contributing to the group
Free rider effect- Someone one else will do the
work, so why should I.
Sucker Effect- Don’t want to be used by free riders,
so don’t say anything
Evaluation apprehension- Afraid to be judged
Production blocking- Don’t have the opportunity to speak.
How to solve Evaluation Apprehension
Brainstorming in private
Anon. idea submission
Production blocking
Give everyone the opportunity to speak
Write down ideas, so you do not forget them
Social loafing
Make parts of the assignment identifiable to a person, if not completed it’s on them.
Assign unique tasks
Give evaluations to everyone
More process losses
Group polarization- Everyone agrees on the idea, so an echo chamber is created and the original idea is exaggerated
Groupthink- Everyone in the group agrees upon the norm, do not challenge ideas. Or people are too afraid to challenge the norm, so they don’t speak out.
How to stop Groupthink/ Group polarization
Plays devils advocate
Bring in a third party moderator
