Learnings from Individual and group behavior (IGB)
Learning Paper on Individual and group behavior (IGB)
Submitted by: Nimish Kumar (131533)
The first meeting for one of our group assignments was scheduled to be held in the hostel itself. However, it got over with virtually no gains, as only two of us were present and the rest of the members didn’t turn up. Later on, I realized that this incident was a learning gain in fact, as it gave me a practical experience of the concept of Social Loafing, where some members try to reduce their individual efforts in the group. Although annoyed by few such incidents in the past also, I was not at all aware of the techniques to discourage social loafing earlier. However, later on during the course of my classroom study on Individual & Group behavior, as I gained useful information in this regard, I used the technique of ignoring the social loafers and encouraging others to give their best contribution.
Very soon after our second group meeting started, I had a glimpse into the leadership and decision-making of the group. Since, the group was autonomous and had no true leader; collective leadership ran the decisions, with every member playing more or less an equal part in voicing their opinion. There were lot of conflicts initially especially amongst those members who never had a previous experience of working with each other in the past. Being high on the ‘openness to experience’ factor of the personality, I was looking forward to draw some positives out of this meeting, but could not find any. Later on during my course study, I learned about the basics of group dynamics and how individual behaviors get shaped in due course of time. I realized that it is very common to have group conflicts in initial stages of group formation & hence in my later group works for other class assignments, I focused my attention on managing such conflicts rather than being surprised by them.
‘Agreeableness’ and social acceptance has definitely been a high priority for me as a person,
Submitted by: Nimish Kumar (131533)
The first meeting for one of our group assignments was scheduled to be held in the hostel itself. However, it got over with virtually no gains, as only two of us were present and the rest of the members didn’t turn up. Later on, I realized that this incident was a learning gain in fact, as it gave me a practical experience of the concept of Social Loafing, where some members try to reduce their individual efforts in the group. Although annoyed by few such incidents in the past also, I was not at all aware of the techniques to discourage social loafing earlier. However, later on during the course of my classroom study on Individual & Group behavior, as I gained useful information in this regard, I used the technique of ignoring the social loafers and encouraging others to give their best contribution.
Very soon after our second group meeting started, I had a glimpse into the leadership and decision-making of the group. Since, the group was autonomous and had no true leader; collective leadership ran the decisions, with every member playing more or less an equal part in voicing their opinion. There were lot of conflicts initially especially amongst those members who never had a previous experience of working with each other in the past. Being high on the ‘openness to experience’ factor of the personality, I was looking forward to draw some positives out of this meeting, but could not find any. Later on during my course study, I learned about the basics of group dynamics and how individual behaviors get shaped in due course of time. I realized that it is very common to have group conflicts in initial stages of group formation & hence in my later group works for other class assignments, I focused my attention on managing such conflicts rather than being surprised by them.
‘Agreeableness’ and social acceptance has definitely been a high priority for me as a person,