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Amit Kumar Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 12: Group Behaviour and Team Work

Unit 12: Group Behaviour and Team Work Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
12.1 Group Behaviour
12.1.1 Types of Groups
12.1.2 Stages of Group Development
12.1.3 Group Decision-making

12.2 Understanding Work Teams
12.2.1 Creating Effective Teams
12.2.2 Types of Teams
12.3 Summary
12.4 Keywords
12.5 Self Assessment
12.6 Review Questions

12.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Identity different types of groups to which people belong
State the reasons people and organisations form groups
Discuss stages of group development

Introduction

Man is by nature a social animal. It is impossible for him to work in isolation of all the other
people around him. Moreover, in the world today, it has become almost imperative for a
professional to work in consonance with other professionals around.

Organisations are nothing but a group of many professionals working together to achieve a
common goal. Different departments comprise of smaller groups to work over a project/goal/
objective.

Thus it is quite obvious that the organisations are existent and successful only because of the
existence and success of the various task groups and project teams existing inside them.

12.1 Group Behaviour

We define "group" as more than two employees who have an ongoing relationship in which
they interact and influence one another's behaviour and performance. The behaviour of
individuals in groups is something more than the sum total of each acting in his or her own way.
In other words, when individuals are in groups, they act differently than they do when they are
alone.

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