Exam 8: Foundations of Group Behaviour

If cohesiveness is high and performance norms are low:

Performance norms include things like appropriate dress and when to look busy.

Your organisation is considering the use of team decision making.You have read extensively the literature on decision making and are trying to inform your manager about the advantages and disadvantages of group decision making. You should expect to find that group:

Asch conducted a simulated prison experiment that demonstrated that people with no prior personality pathology or training in their roles could execute extreme forms of behaviour consistent with the roles they were playing.

Brainstorming is:

According to one review,in terms of demonstrable financial results,the benefits of group diversity remain hard to support based on the extant research.

Deviant workplace behaviour covers a wide range of antisocial actions by organisational members that threatens the well-being of the organisation or its members.

High-status members of groups are given less freedom to deviate from norms than other group members.

Antisocial actions by organisational members that intentionally violate established norms and that result in negative consequences for the organisation,its members or both are referred to as:

________ groups are defined by the organisation's structure.

When two people bond because they feel they are different from other members of the group,these people are likely to be responding to which characteristic of social identity theory?

The most common class of norms are social arrangement norms.

Groups of approximately seven members tend to be more effective for taking action.

Discuss strengths and weaknesses of group decision making.

Max manages a small factory producing electronic smoke detectors.After reading about the Hawthorne studies,he realises that worker productivity can be increased. If Max reduces the light intensity in his factory,what will he achieve?

Quality Timber Pty Ltd is a well-established logging company.With below-average performance,their packaging department is consistently behind schedule.Employees often take long lunch breaks and frequently stop to chat with co-workers.However,the employees get along very well and frequently spend time together,even outside of work. If new members were introduced into the department then cohesiveness of the original group would likely:

When the group energy is focused on the task at hand,the group has moved to the ________ stage.

Most conflicts are resolved by the completion of the first stage in a group's development.

When an individual is confronted by divergent role expectations,the result is role conflict.

The punctuated equilibrium model characterises groups as exhibiting long periods of inertia interspersed with brief revolutionary changes triggered primarily by members' awareness of time and deadlines.