assignment

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MGT 3323 Group Processes “Notebook” for Group Assessment A Text-Based Workbook for Understanding Group Processes and Assessing a Work Group

Developed with MGT 3323 Students with

D. Forsyth, Group Dynamics, 7th Ed., 2019 and his Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/johndonelson/videos

Not for duplication or distribution outside of MGT 3323 Group Processes with Dr. Sandra Gill, Associate Professor due to copyright laws

Students’ Objective: Connect text directly to group analysis assignment, to accurately apply course concepts, evidence, and terminology, with logical and

practical recommendations for improvement of group processes

Course Schedule and Notebook (using selected copywritten text diagrams)

YOU must use ADDITIONAL text material from assigned chapters to earn more than a C final grade --use videos to further inform your written assignment

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4 Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

You select a work group you know well and use Text and Author Vidoes to “assess” your work group: name and briefly describe your results (usually no more

than ½ a page per characteristic, including name of assessment tool from text/notebook) . See the Type of Group example on next page:

Ch 1, 3, 11 Overviews--Introduction to Group Dynamics, its Study, Inclusion and Identity, Teams Course Syllabus Overview and Expected Deliverables and Learning Outcomes Assessing Group Dynamics Assessing Groups v Teams Ch 4 Formation & Ch 5 Cohesion and Development Assessing Group Formation, Cohesion and Development Ch 6 Structure: Group Norm, Roles and Relations Assessing Group Structure Mid-Term -Text and Videos Ch 1-6 Ch 7-8 Influence and Power Assessing Influence and Power Ch 9-10 -11 Leadership, Performance and Teams Assessing Leadership and Performance Ch 12-13 -14 Decision Making and Conflict Assessing Decision Making and Conflict Recap and Final Assignment: My Manager’s Guide to Assessing Group Dynamics

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Type: My work group TYPE is a CATEGORY of 9 faith-based bible study members or

My group type is a SOCIAL GROUP of 7 coworkers on the weekend shift in a pharmacy. We are also a CATEGORY of all pharmacy technicians

On the next page is your Final Assignment “rubric” and Assessment Outline you will summarize in Word, with EACH CAPPED GROUP PROCESS:

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FINAL ASSIGNMENT Rubric and Table of Contents for MY MANAGER’S GUIDE TO ASSESSING GROUP DYNAMICS (55% final grade)

(YOU assess a work group you know well, using text tools and author text,videos, no more than 1 page per Chapter/Group Process IN CAPS

Text Ch & Author Video Link My Assessment (as minimum C level, use assessments in text as exemplified in “notebook”)

MY Managers Guide-- How This Helps Me in the Workplace

IS IT A GROUP? Why? Video: Groups Hold the Secret to the Universe Welcome to Study of Groups Text and Author Video: 1 a &b b; 11 a & b Optional Ch 2 a, b

-TYPE varieties : primary,social,collectives, category 1

-COMPOSITION

-Origin

BOUNDARIES—how permeable/open , closed ( See Ch 3) 3

SIZE-number of possible relationships ( quantify);

1

Interaction/ Interpersonal Relations, OVERALL (TASK, RELATIONSHIP) 1

INTERDEPENCE 1

Formative Processes- INCLUSION & IDENTITY-Need to Belong, Identity and Inclusion, Social Identity

Ch 3 Inclusion and Identity a, b, c videos

Formative Processes: FORMATION- Who Joins, Affiliation, Attraction Ch 4 Formation a,b & c videos

Formative Processes: COHESION and Development/ Entitativity Ch 5 Cohesion a, b & c videos

Influence Processes Structure: NORMS Ch 6a video Structure Norms

Influence Processes Structure: Group ROLES Ch 6 b video Structure: Roles

Influence Processes Structure: RELATIONS Ch 6c video Structure: Relations —Who is connected to whom? Social network analysis

Influence videos: Majority, Minority, Influence Sources and INFLUENCE (in Juries as example )

Ch 7 Influence videos a, b, c & d

Influence Processes: POWER Milgram, Power Bases & Tactics, Power Hierarchy, Power Metamorphic

Ch 8 Power a, b, c & d

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Influence Processes: LEADERSHIP in Groups, Emergence, Effectiveness

Ch 9 Leadership videos a, b, c You MUST include your own Leadership Grid self-assessment and one for the leader in your group (YOU assess the group leader by yourself) https://www.bumc.bu.edu/facdev- medicine/files/2010/10/Leadership-Matrix-Self-Assessment- Questionnaire.pdf

PERFORMANCE Processes: Social Facilitation, Social Loafing, and Social Combination

Ch 10 videos a,b & c

Performance Processes: TEAMS Types, Composition and Process, Training case example

Ch 11 videos a,b. & c

Performance Processes: DECISION MAKING, Polarization and Group Think

Ch 12 videos a, b & c

Conflict Processes: CONFLICTin group(s): Causes, Escalation/DeEscalation,

Ch 13 videos a & b

Conflict Processes: INTERGROUP CONFLICT Causes, Biases, Improvement

Ch 14 a,b & c

Contextual Processes, overall –change, collective and crowd behavior, etc.

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SUMMARY –how each element of group processes helps you in the work place

In following pages are key group assessments (questions, tables, diagrams) from the text, which you learn and use to assess your work group;

You may choose additional tools from the text, so long as EACH CAPPED GROUP PROCESS has a specific assessment source from the text, as the basis for your

brief assessment results.

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P. 129

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Cohesion and Development pg. 138

-Use to assess your group’s level of development

Cohesion and Development pg. 142

-Use to analyze group development

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Group structure (norms, culture, roles, inter-member relations, social network analysis) pg. 162

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III h. Group Structure pg. 171

- (Optional)

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III h. Group Structure pg. 174

- (Optional) Group socialization in terms of roles

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. Group Structure pg. 178

- (Very Important) Is it you or a conflict?

- Role conflict/ambiguity example: Supervisor is not fulfilling a role because he/she is overwhelmed with other work

- Note: Role Conflict here includes 3 sources/types of role-related frustration/stress

- Role ambiguity, inter-role conflict, person-role conflict

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Group structure pg. 183

- Aim to define the communication network in your work group

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Group Structure pg.188

- The informal structure of your team (fill out per group)

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Group Influences pg. 195

-Types of conformity and nonconformity

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III I. Group Influences pg. 197

-(Optional)

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III I. Group Influences pg. 199

-Speculate about the conformity & nonconformity

(This will be helpful to speculate why that's going on)

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Group Influences pg. 203

- Speculating why someone is acting inappropriately (per professor - like a jerk)

- conformity and nonconformity reactions to influence

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Group Influences pg. 209

- Assessment tool to figure out what's going on in your group

III I. Group Influences pg. 216

- (Optional) Communication rates

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Power pg. 239

- The formal power

- Formal vs. informal leader

- See also: http://openknowledge.nau.edu/1643/7/Pielstick_CD_2000_FrankeWPS_00-04%281%29.pdf

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Power pg. 242

- Assessment: What to look for; How do i know what form of power they have

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Power pg. 244

-Use as a tool

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Leadership pg. 269

-What kind of leadership style does the leader have?

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Leadership pg. 272

- (Optional) Leadership Emergence

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Leadership pg. 273

- (Optional) Important to have a reading of it

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Leadership pg. 281

- checklist: if your leader has any of these characteristics

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. Leadership pg. 286

- Leadership Grid: What kind of style of leadership does a leader have? Assess YOURSELF AND YOUR GROUP LEADER using pdf at

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/facdev-medicine/files/2010/10/Leadership-Matrix-Self-Assessment-Questionnaire.pdf

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Leadership pg. 290

- What is your motivation style?

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Leadership pg. 296

- Determination: what kind of leader you have (the conclusion)

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Performance pg. 319

- Look at the risks for Social Loafing and make your determination

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Performance, Creativity, Tasks pg. 328

- A summary of the potential productivity of groups - working on various tasks - the kind of work that has to be done

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. Decision-making, Groupthink and conflict resolution pg. 343

- The different types of teams

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Decision-making, Groupthink and conflict resolution pg. 359

- The teamwork process model - how put together your team is.

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Decision-making, Groupthink and conflict resolution pg. 396

- (Optional) If you think your group engages in groupthink

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Decision-making, Groupthink and conflict resolution pg. 433

- How your group deals with conflict

No later than March 13, 2022 11:59pm Submit YOUR MANAGER’S GUIDE TO GROUP DYNAMICS: Recommendations for Improved Work Group & Teams

with full citations, if any besides text and Dr. Forsyth’s videos (links to readings, other assessments, etc.)