Week 2 - Team Work

Question 1

What is a group?

Answer 1

Attraction between members, friendship between members, some shared goals, some shared characteristics

Question 2

What are Teams?

Answer 2

Teams may have attraction, friendship, shared goals or shared characteristics. But additionally have a higher degree of shared purpose of these and a greater sense of identity.

Question 3

How many stages are there to the formation of a team?

Answer 3

Four (4)

Question 4

What are the stages of team formation?

Answer 4

Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing (adjourning)

Question 5

What is Forming?

Answer 5

The familiarisation with other members
of the team and the organisation,
comparisons within the team, determination
of membership, communication established and relationships tested.

Question 6

What is Storming?

Answer 6

Resistance to leaders, managers,
coaches, interpersonal conflicts, emotional
conflict and role resistance

Question 7

What is Norming

Answer 7

Solidarity, cooperation, role stability &
acceptance, development of mutual respect, focus
on opponents, increased satisfaction, group
cohesion starts here

Question 8

What is Performing?

Answer 8

Members beg y in to seriously interact
& support each other, focus on solving problems
as a group, interpersonal relationships stabilise,
support systems develop, real performance and
team cohesion starts here

Question 9

At what stages can Cohesion be measured?

Answer 9

During Norming and Performing Stages

Question 10

Carron (1982) identifies cohesion as . . . ?

Answer 10

both dynamic and multidimensional

Question 11

What is Social Cohesion?

Answer 11

Sticking together – assumes that there must

be some liking or respect shared between group members

Question 12

What is task Cohesion?

Answer 12

United in the pursuit of goals – acceptance of aims, knowing what the team is for and what has to be achieved

Question 13

What are Roles?

Answer 13

A set of behaviours required/expected of a team member occupying a certain position within a team.

Question 14

What are the important roles that are held both on and off ‘pitch’?

Answer 14

Facilitators and Harmonisers.

Question 15

How many parts do good role relations contain?

Answer 15

Three (3)

Question 16

What are the three role parts?

Answer 16

Role Clarity
Role Acceptance
Role Empathy

Question 17

What is Role Clarity?

Answer 17

knowing exactly what role is within team (goals ?), knowing how this role contributes to the team as a whole

Question 18

What is Role Acceptance?

Answer 18

Willingness to adopt and maintain role

Question 19

What is Role Empathy?

Answer 19

understanding the roles and contributions of others on the team

Question 20

What are Norms?

Answer 20

Levels of performance or patterns of behaviour to be adopted by the whole team

Question 21

Why are Norms essential?

Answer 21

for performance and behaviour.

Question 22

What is the importance of Norms?

Answer 22

To adherence to norms, and establish individual contributions to normative behaviour

Question 23

With reference to ‘Team Climate’ what do norms need?

Answer 23

Social Support
Distinctiveness
Fairness
Similarity
Proximity

Question 24

What does Steiner’s Model (1972) address?

Answer 24

Team Productivity

Question 25

Actual Productivity = what?

Answer 25

Potential productivity - Losses due to faulty group processes

Question 26

Potential productivity - Losses due to faulty group processes = what?

Answer 26

Actual Productivity

Question 27

What causes Loss?

Answer 27

Failure of motivation - all members not giving 100%

Failure of coordination - team members not working together / maximising interaction.

Question 28

What is the Ringlemann effect?

Answer 28

• 1 Person pulls a rope 100% effort expended
• 2 people on the rope expend 93% of maximum effort each effort each.
• 3 people manage only 85%
• Use 8 people and this figure drops to 49 %

Question 29

What is Social Loafing?

Answer 29

When someone doesn’t pull their weight.

Question 30

How do you prevent Social Loafing?

Answer 30

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