Group Cohesion Flashcards
Lesson 14 (14 cards)
What is Cohesion?
The tendency for individuals to work together to achieve their goals, the forces that keep the group members on task. Some believe that a team must be cohesive to achieve any success. Whereas others think cohesion will develop as the team becomes successful
What are the two types of sport groups?
Co-action and interaction
what is Co-action?
Where you perform individually but your efforts contribute to a whole team’s performance e.g rowing team, athletics, golf
What is interaction?
When a group works together to produce results. Each player has a different role and this role must be coordinated with other team members for performance success EG a netball team, rugby team
What are the two types of cohesion?
Task cohesion and Social cohesion
What is task cohesion?
Group members work in unity and are motivated to meet a common aim, they may not be socialise away from team or share views, coordinated in a performance sense coming together and work hard for a good result vital in interactive sports. Success comes as a team
What is social cohesion?
Croup members get along and feel attached to others, communicate and support each other both inside and outside of the sporting arena, More important in co-active sports where you perform individually but your efforts contribute to team success
Why do most teams need effective task and social cohesion?
Social will help the team be interactive help with communication and team spirit. task provides motivation driving the team towards achieving their goals
Which one is more important?
Social cohesion can have a negative influence on the group it can produce sub-groups or ‘cliques’. This may lead to some group members not cooperating or contributing to team discussions. Task cohesion is seen to be important as it can override problems caused by social. the performance/results of the team may still be good even if players don’t socialise outside of playing. Without task cohesion those results would be poor
What are carrots antecedents? (remember PELT)
carrot suggests that there are four main influences on team members to help them work together
Personal factors
Environmental factors
Leadership factors
Team factors
What are personal factors?
Similarity of group members in terms of aspirations, opinions, values, age, gender, fitness and ability
Levels of motivation shown
Are they happy with their role
How they fit in
What are environmental factors?
Size of group- Larger the group the better the chance of more productivity. also more chance of social loafing and the Ringlemann effect developing, motivation may be lost in a larger group. mixtures of age and gender may reduce cohesion is a group is too large ‘cliques’ can form.
Time available- The longer the group has been together, the more time they will have to learn each others roles.
Facilities/£- better facilities better players scholarships contracts
mix of age may reduce cohesion and desire to reach goal
What are the leadership factors?
leadership style chosen by coach/captain is important. As is how the coach/captain gets on with the others in the team.
Personality and behaviour
Relationship with group
What are the team factors?
Ability of group, shared experience in both victory and defeat, common will to win, the longer the team have been together the more chance of cohesion. Motivation to get better for the benefit of your teams’ success.
