Group Effectiveness Psych Paper

Group Effectiveness Psych Paper

  • Submitted By: dylan777
  • Date Submitted: 01/12/2009 9:10 PM
  • Category: Psychology
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Today’s Forecast is “Storming” The first couple of meetings did give some good indicators of who might have a tendency to be guilty of a little social loafing; I not exempt. We had plenty of time to let the ideas just kind of jell together at a relaxed pace. I recognized there were a couple of strong students in the group and this helped ease my sense of urgency, knowing I too could social loaf and be more of ready-to-go spectator if they needed some direction. Most of the ideas and direction came from 2-3 people, while at any given time the other 2-3 people in the group just played spectator(social loaf) or were absent while the stronger students completed a task. Towards the deadline I believe the group was pretty well labeled individually based on their involvement. I believe we had 2 individually dominant leaders of the group that were able to communicate with each other and with the group very constructively which as the text states if the leader of the group has an accurate solution to the problem the group is trying to solve the group will perform at high levels. With having the dual leadership dynamic that seemed to always promote the favorite solution, with multiple followers, we did risk becoming to likeminded that we all agreed on a possible bad idea from one of the leaders. The concept of groupthink was something we might have been guilty of more harshly if we did not have more than one individually dominant leaderthat served as a checks and balance. The leaders did wait a while before stating their position on what they thought the topic should be, and open discussion was promoted and everyone was asked to come up with ideas of which none were shot down immediately; we always seemed to sleep on it. We did leave a couple of meetings with different ideas of what our subject would be, however none that we all seemed unanimous on, and when we did somewhat agree on a topic, a weak later some members would have a better idea. A little cold conflict...

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