group dynamics

What is cohesion?

• the desire fore group members to achieve their goals

• Forces acting to maintain/keep members in group

• 2 kinds - task and social

Whats task cohesion?

• result and outcome based

• More important for success

• Players may hate each other yet still succeed

Whats social cohesion?

• working together and interacting

• If task and social cohesion are high, group dynamic will work very well

What is carrons anteredent in relation to the factors effecting cohesion?

• it relates to 4 factors - environmental, personal, team and leadership

• Environmental eg. Group size, age, geography, contractual obligations - more difficult for rugby due to having 13 players then netball having 7 - difficult in cohesion

• Personal - group similarities, gender, aspirations/satisfactions

• Team - ability, stability, desire for sucsess, shared experience

• Leadership - leader style, leader team relation

What are the features of working in a group?

• teamwork

• Leaders

• Communication/listening

• trust

• Support

• Interaction/responsibility

• Shared objective/common goal

• Collective identity

What 4 stages did psychologist Tuckman suggest are included in the development of groups/sports teams?

• forming - getting to know each other in the team - eg team bonding

• Storming - brainstorming ideas/multiple ideas (conflict) - eg deciding who does what in relay

• norming - making a decision/cooperation - eg successful/winning with new plans/team

What is the performance of a team effected by?

• cohesion

What did stiener suggest about productivity to help explain team performance?

• he saw it as an equations of actual productivity = potential productivity - losses due to faulty processes

What does he mean by actual productivity?

• it is the result

What does he mean by potential productivity?

• the groups best result

What is group coordination?

• working well together

What is the faulty process?

• what goes wrong such as, lacking cohesion, group coordination, motivation and social loafing (and the ringleman effect)

What are the team coordination problems?

• It happens when theres mote people as that means more coordination or qhen teams are not as interactive for example

• its caused by:

• Poor strategy

• Poor tactics

• Misunderstanding of coach

• Lack of communication

• Eg in rugby and football

Whats social loafing/the ringleman effect?

• it is a faulty process

• Where one person is not putting in effort - its less noticeable if its one player in a big team

• And the idea of ringleman is by adding someone else less effort is put in by the rest

• Co active - is when you cant hide it as other players know

How to stop or avoid social loafing?

• you must motivate players

What may cause social loafing?

• loss of motivation

• Low confidence

• Low ability

• Low leadership qualities

How can social loafing be avoided?

• setting individual goals

• More challenging roles

• Give a specific role to them in the team

• Rewards

• Tactics are clear

• Established group identity

• Using statistics to highlight individual performance