Group dynamics/cohesion Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Group dynamics/cohesion Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass What is a group - Collection of individuals who have no relations to one another that make them interdependent to some significant degree. Key requirements for a group - Interaction Mutual awareness Interdependance Continuity over time without these its not a group Need to understand group processes - As well as individual ability in order to understand group performance Steiners model of performance - Actual productivity = potential productivity - losses due to faulty process High potential productivity - Lots of losses due to faulty process - Team performes below potential Actual productivity - What the group actually does (Performance) Potential productivity - Groups best possible performance given the resources relevant to the task and demands of the task Page 2/6 Crafted for Academic Insight by ©KatelynWhitman 2025. All rights reserved. Process - Everything the group does which transforms its recourses into a product (Processes) Faulty process - The innefective use of available resources to meet task demands 2 types Co-ordination losses Motivation losses Co-ordination losses - Up to the coach E.g poor timing, poor teamwork Motivation losses - Up to the players Occour when some or all members of the group/team lack effort or desire (Social loafing) Reducing faulty processes - Coach or leaders role to develop and practice organisational startagies that reduce co-ordination loss and maintain optimal motivation levels Ringleman effect - Average individual performance decreases with increases in group size Ringleman 1898 - 1,2,3,8 people tugging on a rope Found: 1 person 100% of individual force, 2=93% 3=85% 8=49% Co-ordination or motivation loss Ingram et al 1974 - Replication of ringleman but controlled for co-orfination losses Page 3/6 Crafted for Academic Insight by ©KatelynWhitman 2025. All rights reserved. Found: 85% in 3 person group 78% in 6 person group Concluded it was due to motivational losses Faulty process overall conclusion - Although co-ordination losses increase as group size increases ringleman effect not due to co-ordination losses Decrease in individual performanance is due to social loafing Social loafing - If identibility of individuals performance is lost in group performance, performance decreases because of diffusion of responsibility and lack of accountability. Monitoring individual perfroamces - Can decrease social