Week 6 Flashcards
Primary vs secondary groups
Primary = automatic membership (family)
Secondary = less personalized, goals,(clinical groups)
Why use groups
Perspective, task accuracy, cooperation skills, range of skills, efficient, more ideas
Drawbacks for groups
Disagreements, conflict, more effort, reliance, more time required, unfair distribution of work
Tuckmans 5 stages of group development
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning
Forming
Coming together, introductions
Storming
Control/ role issues
Mild conflict
Norming
What is ok, what is not
Performing
Working phase
Adjourning
Group ends
Group characteristics (7)
Purpose
Goals
Size/composition
Role positions
Group dynamics
Norms
Role functions
Norms
Expected behaviours
Can be universal or group Specific
Universal norms
Confidentiality
Attendance
Respect
Participation
Group specific norms
Being late?
Humour?
How thins get done
Role functions
Internal image of how each member sees each other
Task functions
Activities that facilitate working together toward a goal
Eg. sending emails, time keeper