Building Management Skills: Diagnosing Group Failures

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Building Management SkillsDiagnosing Group
Failures

• Type of group
• Motivations of members to achieve group goals
• Recall from Making Teams Work importance of
  what do we want to accomplish discussion
• Size of group, type of task interdependence,
  roles
• Norms, conformity and deviance
• Control by instructor?
• Behavioral ( e.g., direct supervision) vs. clan
  (e.g., norms)
• Cohesiveness, and consequences
• Social loafing (or loathing!)
• Action by group leader to increase group
  effectiveness
• Why is leader required to discipline
  non-contributor?
• Why is leader required to ensure members work
  efficiently?
• Is group leader required for leadership behaviors
  to be performed?
• Recall that definition of leadership is
  process by which individual exerts influence
  over other people and motivates their activities
  to help achieve group or organizational goals
• Individual may lack legitimate power, reward
  power, or coercive power, but possess expert
  power and referent power
• Action by group members to increase group
  effectiveness
• Is one person doing the work of others a type of
  conflict avoidance, as opposed to