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Presentation 1
GROUP
Two or more people
Shared goals
Cohesiveness
SIZE
Group Property 1: Roles
Father
Group Property 1: Roles (Cont.)
Role
Expectation
ROLE
Psychological Contract
Role
Perception
Group Property 2: Norms
Acceptable standards of behavior within a
group that are shared by the group members.
Performance Norms
Appearance Norms
Social Arrangement Norms
Resource Allocation Norms
Conformity
Group member desires acceptance.
Individuals try to conform to norms of these
groups.
Large Groups
SOCIAL
LOAFING
Sum of
Individual
Productivity
GROUP
PRODUCTIVIT
Y
Social Loafing
Causes: Prevention:
Equity theory – unequal Set group goals
distribution of work Increase inter-group
Dispersion of competition
responsibility – clouds the Engage in peer evaluation
relationship between
Distribute group rewards
individual inputs and
group output based on members’
individual contributions
Group Property 5: Cohesiveness
The degree to which members of the group are attracted to each other and
motivated to stay in the group.
Moral
judgements
Reality
testing
Symptoms of Groupthink Minimizing Groupthink
Nominal
Interactin Brain Electronic
Group
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Technique