FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR AND WORK TEAMS

1. FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR AND WORK TEAMS Student’s Name, Professor’s Name Course Title Date.

2. FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR AND WORK TEAMS INTRODUCTION • Group comprise of several individuals whose aim is to accomplish certain tasks or responsibilities in an organization or any institution. • Group dynamics is the level of attitude and behavior resulting from coming together of people, who forms a group • Groups are more common in organizations, since they make the major entity. • This presentation attempts to discuss the formation and dynamism of group behavior and work teams and decision making process in the group • Forming a team takes lots of time since the process go through recognizable stages.

3. Cont…FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR AND WORK TEAMS • Group dynamics is usually concerned with why and how groups are develop in any organization as applied also in group develop. • Group development has a lot of theories which involve classic theory developed by George Humans • The other alternative explanation of group develop is social exchange theory. This theory explains how individual form their relationships based on their expectation of mutual support and other beneficial exchanges

4. Cont…FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR AND WORK TEAMS • Formation stage: At the beginning of coming together the "strange people", most team people who come to built a team are positive and polite • In this stage, leaders of the group play a major and dominant role of leading other team members to know what is expected of them to do, since to them the roles are not yet clear (Franz, 2012, p.14). • Storming stage: At this stage, they group members start going beyond the boundaries that were established during formation stage • Storming starts where there is a conflict between team members that is created by the individual's natural working style.

5. Cont…FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR AND WORK TEAMS • Norming stage: In this stage, people learn how to and start resolving major differences that exists between the groups members. • In this particular stage, team members know each other better and therefore start socializing together. • People begin developing strong commitments to the team goals in this stage. • The performing stage: In this stage, the team members in a group are hard work, less friction, and realization of achievement of goals of the team. • The culture of the organization or the team at this stage is established, and the team members feel easy to be part of the team.

6. Cont…FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF GROUP BEHAVIOR AND WORK TEAMS • Adjourning stage: This is a stage that many groups reach at last. • This stage becomes a doom to some team members especially those who have had close working relationship with other team members • Using the tool stage: This is an approach that occur within every stage above. Here, the teal leader must help other team members perform well. • In a group, power is a force that gives one the ability to influence others to take actions which would otherwise remain un performed.

7. Individual and Group Decision Making Individual and Group Decision Making • In businesses, large part of operation entails decision making. Decision making is however easy when there is only one person relied upon. • Ferrell, Fraedrich and Ferrell (2010) notes that individual decision making is the more traditional decision making approach and can work effectively for a manager when the group's input is not required or in certain cases, desired. • In group decision making, there are variety of how people make decisions. For example the consensus and consultation influences decision making. • Consultation entails taking into consideration opinions of the group when making a decision.

8. Cont…Individual and Group Decision Making The following are the factors influencing decision making: • The decision makers: Individuals decision makers are unique in terms of their personalities, abilities, beliefs and values. People have different capabilities and speeds of understanding and interpreting results from a data which at the end influence decision making. • The decision situation: Change, risks and uncertainties are common in decision making situations. Recognizing such elements and how they make sense are two of the main challenges that decision makers face.

9. Cont…Individual and Group Decision Making • Decision criteria: The criteria established in evaluating alternative courses of action when making decisions affect the entire outcome of decision making. Different criteria vary in appropriateness depending on the situations. • Time: A decision is made at a particular time in a particular set of circumstances. The decision situation can change very rapidly so what appeared to be a rational decision at one time might later appear to be anything but that.

10. Conflict Resolution Processes The following outlines the stages of conflict resolution within a group before negotiation begins. • Mediators come in between the disputing parties upon the request of the parties or through the request of the authority under which the parties are. • the mediators should built the credibility with the disputants. • the mediator should bring into being a relatively close and comfortable relationship environment between the parties and the mediator. • Thirdly, disputing parties should be educated about the mediation process this is because it is basically the parties that are required to resolve their dispute. • Finally, the mediator must secure the commitment of the parties' to mediation.

11. Cont…Conflict Resolution Processes The Mediation Process • Mediators generally follow a common plan for the first mediation session. The session begins with an opening statement by the mediator. • The mediator answers questions from the parties. Parties make a variety of different kinds of opening statements. Reaching a Settlement • Having generated a range of settlement options, the parties must next evaluate those options. • When the parties' settlement ranges overlap there is a range of possible mutually acceptable settlements available to the parties. Interest-based bargainers will seek the solution which provides maximum mutual benefits.

12. Cont…Conflict Resolution Processes Conclusions stage of conflict resolution • In concluding the resolution process, the team members of a group are not expected to be biased in judging the disputants. The Communication Process in an organization • The communication is to convey information and how people in an organization understands the message conveyed. • The most efficient communication occurs at a minimum cost in terms of resources expended. Time, in particular, is an important resource in the communication process.

13. Power and its Influence in a Group • Power is the ability of one communicator to influence another communicator to do an action which could not be done by anyone. • Power becomes dominance when one (or more) group members have capabilities to influence others. • People whose domineering position generally assert their own will without considering the needs of rest of the group members. • The amount of power one person has over another is based on how much each depends on the other. • In organizations, power influence the political perspective and opinion greatly.

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