PROJECT REPORT ON: GROUP DYNAMICS

SUBMITTED TO:- PROF. POOJA GOEL

SUBMITTED BY :-
ARVIND GUPTA (8123)
SUNIL SINGH(8155)
ASIF SHAIKH (8150)
VINEET SHARMA(8132)
KARTIK MAHAVEKAR(8141)
GROUP DYNAMICS
 Learning objectives

• To understand the nature and types

of group.
• To understand concept of teams and
types of team.
• To know the stages of team
formation.
• To understand factors affecting
group dynamics and effectiveness.
• To understand the impact of group
think and maturity on group dyanmic.
 What is group?
A group is any number of people who share goals,often
communicate with one another over a period of time
and are few enough so that each individual may
communicate with all the other person-to-person.
 Types of group

• Friendship groups
• Task groups
• Formal groups
• Informal groups
• Effective groups
 Teams

The dictionary gives the word team the meaning of

“lump” or “mass”.
A general definition is “a small number of people
with complementary skills who are committed to a
common purpose, set of performance goals, and
approach for which they hold themselves mutually
accountable”.

“Man can only make progress in a cooperative

teams.”
 Types of team
• Functional team
• Problem solving team
• Cross-functional team
• Self-managed team
• Virtual team
 Development stage of
team
• Forming stage
• Storming stage
• Norming stage
• Performing stage
• Adjourning stage
 Influence on team
effectiveness
• Context
• Goals
• Team size
• Team members role and diversity
 (A) Task oriented roles
1) Initiating
2) Seeking information or opinions
3) Giving information or opinion
4) Clarifying and elaborating
5) Summarizing
6) Consensus testing
 (B) Relationship oriented
roles

1) Harmonizing
2) Gate keeping
3) Encouraging
4) compromising
(C) self-oriented roles
1) Dominator
2) Negativist
3) Aggressor
4) Playboy
5) Storyteller
6) Interrupter
7) Poor me
 Team diversity
• Norms

• cohesiveness
 GROUP THINK
“GROPUPTHINK” is an agreement- at-
any cost mentality that results in
ineffective team decision-making and
poor decisions.
 Group think process
Initial conditions
 high coensiveness
Insulation of the
Team from outsiders. Characteristics of
Lack of methodical Group thinking Group think leads
 illusion of To defective
Procedures for sear-
-Ch &appraisal. Invulnerability Decision making
High stress with low Collective  in complete
Degree of hopes for Rationalization Survey of
Believe in inhere- Alternatives
For finding a better
Solution than the other -nt mortality of the Poor informati-
Favoured by the leader Team -on search
Conformity Stereotypes of Failure to
Or other influential Seeking
People. Other groups Work out
Tendency of Self-censorship
Complex or changing Contingency plans
The gropu
Environment.
 Remedies to over come
group think

Organizational remedies
• Multiple groups examine same issue
• Teach managers methods they can use to
recognize and overcomes symptoms.

Leader oriented remedies

• Encourage all members to evaluate ideas critically
• Bring in outsiders to evaluate ideas critically.
Process-oriented remedies
• Use subgroups to develop alternatives and
compare solutions.
• Compare to other organization solutions.
• Prior to implementation, hold “second chance”
meetings.

Member oriented remedies

• Make no decision until all ideas have been
evaluated.
• Go outside the group for opinions and share them
afterwards.
•Thank you