Groups Process and Practice



Groups Process and Practice

Introduction

Characteristics of the groups

Groups as they evolve they begin to show certain characteristics: structure, hierarchies, roles, norms, leadership, cohesion and conflict. e group is set and the roles, efforts, energies and commitment on performing which are accepted. The final stage is adjourning stage involves the termination of group activities. After researching through stages it plays an important role in individual of group where it is psychological rewarding such as developing good communication, forming relation with members and developing the knowledge of thinking. Groups are composed of members and face from a stage of initiation (when integrated) to match (when the group ends), but also go through a stage of storm, when the group is in stage of defining rules and policies, and as standards and sanctions. We review in detail the characteristics of the group:

1. Structure: as time passes in the group develops some kind of structure, are distinguished based on factors such as experience, aggressiveness, power and status. Each group member occupies a position within it and the pattern of relations between the positions is the group structure.

2. The hierarchy of status: status is assigned to a particular position is the result of certain characteristics that distinguish one place from another. Factors such as seniority, age or work requested in some cases determines the status of the person. e group is set and the roles, efforts, energies and commitment on performing which are accepted. The final stage is adjourning stage involves the termination of group activities. After researching through stages it plays an important role in individual of group where it is psychological rewarding such as developing good communication, forming relation with members and developing the knowledge of thinking.

3. Roles: each person in the group has a role to play, which is the expected behavior of the occupant of that position. But there is also the perceived role and played.

4. The standards are generally accepted standards of group behavior and the individual to develop following the interaction of members over time. The rules are formed only in relation to things that are meaningful to the group.

5. Leadership: the leader has some influence on its members and the formal group leader exercises power legitimately sanctioned. The leader is respected in the group recognized that: it helps the group achieve its goals, that meet their needs, the leader is the embodiment of values, motives, aspirations of its members also represent the view of his group when interact with leaders of other groups, is a mediator in the conflicts of the group.

6. Cohesion: a force that holds together the members of the group, which is greater than the forces that will try to remove them. With increasing group cohesion also increases the level of compliance with group norms. The degree of group cohesion can yield positive or negative depending on the degree of coincidence being the group's goals and the formal organization.

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