Group Development Flashcards

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Define Group

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Two or more individuals, interacting and interdependent, who have come together to achieve particular objectives.

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Define Formal Group

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A designated work group defined by an organization’s structure.

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Define Informal Group

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A group that is neither formally structured nor organizationally determined; such a group appears in response to the need for social contact.

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Social Identity Theory

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Perspective that considers when and why individuals consider themselves members of groups.

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In-group Favoritism

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Perspective in which we see members of our in-group as better than other people, and people not in our group as all the same.

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Five-Stage Model

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The five distinct stages groups go through: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.

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Forming Stage

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The first stage in group development, characterized by much uncertainty.

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Storming Stage

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The second stage in group development, characterized by intragroup conflict

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Norming Stage

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The third stage in group development, characterized by close relationships and cohesiveness.

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Performing Stage

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The fourth stage in group development, during which the group is fully functional.

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Adjourning Stage

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The final stage in group development for temporary groups, characterized by concern with wrapping up activities, rather than task performance.

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Punctuated-Equilibrium Model

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A set of phases that temporary groups go through that involves transitions between inertia and activity

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Define Role

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A set of expected behavior patterns attributed to someone occupying a given position in a social unit.

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Role Perception

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An individual’s view of how he or she is supposed to act in a given situation.

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Role Expectations

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How others believe a person should act in a given situation

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Psychological Contract

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An unwritten agreement that sets out what management expects from an employee and vice versa

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Role Conflict

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A situation in which an individual is confronted by divergent role expectations

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Norms

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Acceptable standards of behavior within a group that are shared be the group’s members

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Conformity

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The adjustment of one’s behavior to align with the norms of the group.

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Reference Groups

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Important groups to which individuals belong or hope to belong and with whose norms individuals are likely to conform

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Deviant Workplace Behavior

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Voluntary behavior that violates significant organizational norms and, in so doing, threatens the well-being of the organization or its members. Also called antisocial behavior or workplace incivility.

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Status

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A socially defined position or rank given to groups or group members by others

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Status Characteristics Theory

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A theory that states that differences in status characteristics create status hierarchies within groups

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Social Loafing

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The tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually.

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Cohesiveness

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The degree to which group members are attracted to each other and are motivated to stay in the group

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Diversity

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The extent to which members of a group are similar to, or different from, one another.

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Groupthink

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A phenomenon in which the norm for consensus overrides the realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action.

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Groupshift

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A change between a group’s decision and an individual decision that a member within the group would make; the shift can be toward either conservatism or greater risk but it generally is toward a more extreme version of the group’s original position.

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Interacting Groups

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Typical groups in which members interact with each other face to face

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Brainstorming

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An idea-generation process that specifically encourages any and all alternatives while withholding any criticism of those alternatives.

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Nominal Group Technique

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A group decision-making method in which individual members meet face to face to pool their judgement in a systematic but independent fashion.

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Electronic Meeting

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A meeting in which members interact on computers, allowing for anonymity of comments and aggregation of votes.