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Organizational behavior (Chapter 9)
Group Behavior
Section 201
Shouq Al-Hamoudi
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Questions for review
1. Define group? What are the different types of groups?
Group refers to more than one person who are interact and interdependent with each
other to accomplish cretin goal.
The types of groups:
I.
Group: it is when people tends to be together and interact and interdependent to
each other to attain a certain objectives.
II.
Formal group: it is when group must follow organization structure. The group must
behave towards achieving the organization goal.
III.
Informal group: it is not determined by the organization and it does not have a
formal structure.
IV.
A command group: it is specified by the organization when the individuals who are
in group report to one person (manger, leader)
V.
A task group: it is determining by the organization and it is when a team work
together to finish a certain task.
VI.
Interest group: when group of individuals work together to accomplish a certain
goal that everyone in the group is interested at it.
VII.
Friendship group: it is group that mostly you find them out of the organization in
the social life people have friendship groups when they have the same interest the
same characteristics the same believes.
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2. What are the five stages of group development?
I.
Forming:
It is the first stage in the group work where everything is uncertain it is the stage when
the group deciding the leader and setting goals and they not yet start the work, no one
sure about anything.
II.
Storming
It is the second stage when the conflict start come up each one has his own opinion and
background maybe they agree in something and conflict on the other thing.
III.
Norming
This is third stage in the group work when the individual in the team is having close
relation with each other and having cohesiveness relation.
IV.
Performing
This stage where is focusing in functioning it is fully functional.
V.
Adjourning
It is more concentrated on wrapping activities instead of focusing on the task
performance.
3. Do role requirements change in different situations? If so, how?
Yes, because different groups will establish it is a role requirement.
4. How do group norms and status influence an individual behavior?
Individuals who have high statue that given by the group members mostly they can
break the norms and they have more freedom to do what they want.
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5. How does group size affect group performance?
The smaller is the group the faster it is in doing tasks rather than large group and the
performance of the group members is better in the smaller groups. Smaller group is
better in the productivity using the input they have. On the other hand, the larger group
in the problem solving is better than the smaller the larger group is better in getting
more different inputs.
6. What are the advantages and limitations of cohesive groups?
The advantages of cohesiveness is effecting the group productivity when the
performance related norms are high it is benefit the group productivity it will make
increase the productivity in that group on the other hand when the performance norms
and cohesiveness’ high it will result with low productivity. But when the cohesiveness
is low and the performance norms are high it will result with high productivity but not
as when they are both high. And when both are low the norms and the cohesiveness it
result with low to moderate range.
7. What are the strengths and weaknesses of group (versus individual) decision
making?
A. The strengths:
I.
Groups provide more information and knowledge they will have more resource for
the information as the number of the members in the group.
II.
Will have different views because each individual has his own view and that gives
more options and suggestion.
III.
It increases the individual acceptance for the solution provided.
B. Weakness:
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I.
Groups take longer time on finding solution so there will be (a conformity
pressures).
II.
The domination will be by one of few members
III.
The group may have ambiguous responsibility
8. How effective are interacting, brainstorming, nominal and electronic meeting
groups?
I.
Interacting:
It is when individuals meet face to face when they interact with each other verbal and
nonverbal communication. This is effective in delivering the information to the other
members and easy to understand.
II.
Brainstorming:
Can control the pressures for conformity
III.
Nominal group:
It controls the communication and the discussion that happen during the process of the
decision making. It is make their judgments in a systematic.
IV.
Electronic
It is a meeting that the individual are communicating through computers that allow
commitment anonymity and votes aggregation.
9. What is the evidence for the effect of culture on group status and social
loafing? How does diversity affect groups and their effectiveness over time?
The status is different from culture to culture because the criteria that establish status are
different in each country. Social loafing is something consistent with the members’
culture (the bias). It is not related to the collective societies.
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Evidence show that the effectiveness of culturally diverse groups is increasing over time
it becomes better also it helps individual to look to different cultures and become open
minded and except other cultures. On the other hand for the short term it is quite
difficult. Also in the beginning it establishes many conflicts.
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Reference:
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(robbins & judge, 2008)
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