B MGT 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Loafing, Procrastination, Group Cohesiveness
Groups and teams
Stages of Group Development
Stage 1: Forming
• Group members tend to be uncertain and anxious about their roles, whose in charge and the
group’s goals
• Mutual trust is low
Stage 2: Storming
• Time of testing
• Individuals try to determine how they fit into the power structure
• Procrastination may occur
Stage 3: Norming
• Questions about authority and power are resolved through unemotional, matter-of-fact group
discussion
• Group cohesiveness – the e feelig egis idig group eers together
Stage 4: Performing
• Activity focused on solving task problems
• Climate of open communication, strong cooperation, and lots of helping behavior
Stage 5: Adjourning
• Work is done
• Time to move on to other things
Forming Stage
• Initial entry of members to a team.
• Member challenges
o Getting to know each other
o Discovering what is considered acceptable behavior
o Deteriig the group’s real task
o Defining group rules
Storming Stage
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