Summary Group Performance

A snapshot of the summary - Group Performance Author: Bernard A Nijstad ISBN: 9781135217785

• 1 Studying small groups

• What are group properties?

  • Interdependence
    
  • Importance
    
  • Interaction
    
  • Similarity
    
  • Group cohesion
    
  • Duration
    
  • Size (-)
    
  • Permeability (-)
    
  • Group structure (+/-)
    
• What are functions of groups?

  Task performance
  Meeting needs of memebers
  
  

  • Need to belong
    

  
  Understand the World
  

  • Social comparison theory
    
  • Consensus implies correctness
    

  
  
  Understand ourselves
  

  • Social identity theory
    
  • Self-categorization theory
    

  
  
  Utilitarian benefits
  

  • Exchange theory (costs and benefits)
    
• What are inputs for the input-process-output model?

  Individual characteristics
  

  • Demographics
    
  • Personality
    
  • Values
    
  • Working styles
    
  • Norms
    

  
  
  
  
  
  Individual and organizational resources
  

  • Power
    
  • Task
    
  • Structures
    
• What are the cognitive processes in the input-proces-output model?

  • Team climate
    
  • Team mental models
    
  • Team transactive memory
    
  • Team learning
    
• What are the motivational processes in the input-proces-output model?

  • Team cohesion
    
  • Team efficacy
    
  • Team affect, moods and emotions
    
  • Team conflict
    
• What are the behavioral processes in the input-proces-output model?

  • Team coordination, cooperation and communication
    
  • Team member competencies
    
  • Team performance, regulation, adaptation
    
• What kind of output do you have in the input-process-output model?

  • Performance
    
  • Meeting members needs
    
  • Viability
    
• How can you study groups?

  • Qualitative case studies
    
  • Surveys and correlational designs
    
  • Experiments
    
• What are the pros and cons for qualitative case studies?

  • + Rich & detailed picture
    
    
  • - No large quantities
    
  • - Conclusions can’t be made
    
• What are the pros and cons for the surveys and correlational designs?

  • + Quantify relationships and variables
    
  • + Real-world relevance
    
  • - Subjective data
  • - Causality