DEVELOPMENT Session 4: Team and Group Dynamics Case Presentation • Hy Dairies Inc. What are Teams? Groups of two or more people who interact and influence each other‚ are mutually accountable for achieving common goals associated with organisational objectives‚ and perceive themselves as a social entity within an organisation. • Groups of two or more people • Exist to fulfill a purpose • Interdependent -- interact and influence each other • Mutually accountable for achieving
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Obedience is a form of social influence that occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions on orders from an authority figure. Obedience is compliance with commands given by an authority figure. In the 1960s‚ the social psychologist Stanley Milgram did a famous research study called the obedience study. It showed that people have a strong tendency to comply with authority figures. Milgram’s Obedience Study Milgram told his forty male volunteer research subjects that they were participating
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Social Psychology Phenomena: Obedience to Authority Obedience is a social psychology phenomenon where people willingly do something to obey a certain figure of authority that instructed them to do something that conflicted with their moral sense. People obey those authority figures because they believe that they have lesser intellectual‚ power‚ experience or position than that figure. Obedience comes in many different forms‚ for example obedience to law‚ obedience to god‚ obedience to social norms
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Group Dynamics in Organizations Kirsten O’connell Mgt 415: Group Behavior in Organizations Steven Bedell May 3‚ 2010 Abstract А well-managed organization needs adequate talent to achieve its goals. In addition‚ organizational leaders need to understand the individuals that are working for the organization. By learning how the behavior and culture of individuals affects the organization‚ leaders and organizations move one step closer to success. Organizational behavior is а field of study devoted
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teamwork: A case study ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦9@¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ Pina Tarricone Edith Cowan University‚ Perth‚ Australia g.tarricone@ecu.edu.au Joe Luca Edith Cowan University‚ Perth‚ Australia j.luca@ecu.edu.au Abstract: Why are some teams successful and others unsuccessful? What criteria or attributes are needed for success? Contemporary teaching and learning practice over the past few years in higher education institutions has seen a proliferation of open-ended constructivist learning designs that incorporate
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Module 1: doing Social Psychology Wednesday‚ August 29‚ 2012 3:54 PM Social Psychology: The art of people-watching in a scientific manner. Theory: a broad explanation for a wide set of phenomena‚ strongly supported Concise: coherent‚ systematic‚ predictive‚ widely accepted. Strongly supported by many lines of evidence. Must be testable and falsifiable Generated more exploration Applicable to life Hypotheses: the edited Theory. What constitutes a good theory? Have your theory; generated
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Conformity is a form of social influence that involves you to change your beliefs to fit in with a group. This change is due to the physical presence of the group members‚ or imagined group pressure that involves the pressures of social norms. In the public services compliance with common practices is following a particular course of action which is the social norm. It can be seen when the police are dealing with suspects as the suspect is innocent until proven guilty and the law should not be taken
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Social psychology is about understanding individual behavior in a social context. Baron‚ Byrne & Suls (1989) define social psychology as ....... “the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior in social situations”. (p. 6). It therefore looks at human behavior as influenced by other people and the social context in which this occurs. Social psychologists therefore deal with the factors that lead us to behave in a given way in the presence of others
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Module 1 Doing Social Psychology blz. 3 t/m 14 Social psychology The scientific study of how people think about‚ influence‚ and relate to one another. Forming and testing theories Theory An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Hypothesis A testable proposition that describes a relationship that might exist between events. Correlational research: detecting natural associations Correlational research The study of the naturally
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I have encounter a lot of experiences with social influences‚ but out of all of them obedience stood out to me the most. Obedience is the most important social influences to me because it plays a big part of my everyday life. For example‚ when it comes to stopping at a stop sign‚ or when it comes to the rules of my job. I obey stopping at the stop sign and not speeding through it‚ and I also obey the rules of my job. So‚ when I hear the word obedience I start to think about when people obey the rules
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