Tuesday, June 11, 2013

GROUP COHESIVENESS

GROUP COHESIVENESS
Cohesion to be task commitment and interpersonal attraction to the group. It brings group become unity and committed to work  to complete  goal. It  includes multidymanisal skills, emotional needs towards group attractions, group prides, and commitment of task. A formal definition of group cohesiveness is, " the resultant of all the forces acting on members to remain in the group." Attendance and punctuality are easy ways of measuring the cohesiveness of a group. 

Several benefits from group cohesiveness are effective communication among the group members, positive instructions to each other, its main task is to accomplish  tasks,  it results that the group becomes satisfied with action of work. 

It refers to consequences for group communication, satisfaction, performance, hostility and aggression toward other groups, and a group’s willingness to innovate and change.

Major Factors are influencing the amount of cohesiveness in a group like as members of the group share attitudes and values, the amount and severity of external threats to the group.

It is sharing the group experiences in terms of recognizable successes, the degree of difficulty encountered in joining the group, and the size of the group.


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