Group Dynamics and Leadership Quiz

Group Dynamics and Leadership Functions

• There are 5 stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning, with specific features and leader's roles for each stage.
• A leader's functions within a group include norm setting, encouraging, compromising, coordinating, initiating, following, seeking and providing information, evaluating, and summarizing.
• Groups unleash energy and creativity, reduce boredom, and increase self-worth, while also expanding knowledge and skills.
• Group effectiveness is measured by productive output and personal satisfaction.
• Group cohesiveness is determined by group interaction, shared goals, and personal attraction to the group.
• Group conflicts can arise due to scarce resources, jurisdictional ambiguities, communication breakdowns, personality clashes, power and status differences, and goal differences.
• Group properties include roles, role expectations, and norms, which are acceptable standards of behavior within a group.
• Conformity in groups can be influenced by normative and informational influences, as demonstrated in Solomon Asch's conformity experiment.
• Group norms can influence the presence or absence of deviant workplace behavior.
• Social loafing is the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually.
• The relationship between group cohesiveness, performance norms, and productivity is crucial for the success of a group.
• Ways to increase group cohesiveness include making the group smaller, encouraging agreement with group goals, increasing time spent together, increasing group status and entry difficulty, stimulating competition with other groups, giving rewards to the group as a whole, and physically isolating the group.