Group Process



Answer No. 1

Groups as they evolve they begin to show certain characteristics: structure, hierarchies, roles, norms, leadership, cohesion and conflict. 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. Then integration comes, which is the stage when the group reaches more cohesive.

 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.

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.

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

The perceived role is the set of behaviors that the person who occupies a position thought to be played, in some cases the perceived role may correspond with the expected. The role is the behavior that the person actually has in groups tend to encourage a good agreement between expected and perceived roles, but can lead to conflict and frustration for the differences between the three roles.

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. May be written or verbal communication. Team members accept the rules to varying degrees, some totally agree, others only partially. May apply to each and every one of the members of the group. Groups establish rules on resource allocation and performance standards.

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.

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. Managers can encourage or discourage group cohesion, employing the following strategies. 

Answer No. 2

Advantages of the method of observation

Monitoring allows you to directly capture and record the acts of behavior.

Monitoring allows you to simultaneously capture the behavior of a number of persons in relation to each other or to specific tasks, ...