MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Punctuated Equilibrium, Role Conflict, Personalization
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Group: 2 or more people interacting to achieve a goal. Formal work groups: established by organizations to facilitate the achievement of organizational goals. Informal groups: emerge naturally in response to the common interests of organizational members. Good tool for monitoring and troubleshooting how groups develop. Well acquainted task force and committees are shortcuts. Punctuated equilibrium model: describes how groups with deadlines are affected by their first meetings and crucial midpoint transitions. Phase 1: first meeting and set agenda; little progress; stress motivation and excitement. Midpoint : change in group approach; seek advice; might need new approach; strategy. Characteristics of the stable social organization of a group. Diversity of group membership: difficult time communicating become cohesive, take longer to form, storm, norm, more and less diverse group are equality cohesive and productive, age, gender, race. The focal person: role conflict: condition of being faced with incompatible role expectations. Inter-role conflict several roles held by one person.
