1. NATURE OF GROUPS
By,
Roshni Mathew
MACFAST,Tiruvalla
Kerala

2. DEFINITION OF GROUPS
 Two or more individuals interacting with each other
in order to accomplish a common goal.

3. TYPES OF GROUPS
 Formal Groups:
 A group that managers establish to achieve
organization goals.
 Eg: Product development team, college faculty,
finance dept. of a company
 Informal Group:
 A group that managers or non managerial employees
form to help achieve their own goals or to meet their
own needs.
 Bring together people to meet there social needs.
 This group forms naturally.
 Eg: Orkut. Facebook.

4. GROUP DEVELOPMENT STAGES

5. FORMING
 Teams are generally new teams that are learning
how to work together.
 Members tend to be tentative and polite and to
have little conflict
 Need to identify their purpose, develop group
norms, identify group processes, define roles,
build relationships and trust
 Usually need a strong leader who can help the
team go through its forming activities

6. STORMING
 Teams have moved past the early forming stages
and are now encountering some disagreements
and/or conflict. This is natural, but teams need
to find effective ways to handle conflict before
they can move on to stage 3.
 Tend to exhibit increased conflict, less
conformity and “jockeying” for power.
 Need to learn how to resolve conflict; clarify
their roles, power, and structure; and build
consensus through re-visiting purpose.
 Need leaders and other team members who are
willing to identify issues and resolve conflict

7. NORMING
 Teams have successfully moved out of the
storming stage and are ready to move to a higher
level of communication and problem-solving.
 Members demonstrate an improved ability to
complete tasks, solve problems, resolve conflict.
 Need to learn to engage in more sophisticated
problem-solving and decision-making, continue
the use of effective strategies for conflict
resolution and take greater levels of
responsibility for their roles.
 Leaders become less directive, team members
feel empowered, and multiple leaders emerge

8. PERFORMING
 Teams are at the highest level of performance
and can process their strengths and weaknesses
while accomplishing their goals.
 Team takes a flexible approach to roles and
structures depending on the task at hand. The
team is able to evaluate its effectiveness and
views conflict is viewed as an opportunity. Stage
4 teams tend to be energetic, creative, and fun!
 Need to hold high expectations for their
performance. They often use sub-groups as well
as the large group for decision-making and task
completion. Teams also recognize the need to
ensure that all members are in agreement with
the role and purpose of sub-groups.
 Often difficult to identify the leader, because

9. ADJOURNING
 Teams are at not at their highest level of
performance as teams may disband or group members
may leave.
 The team may disband on achieving their goals or
because the group members leave. Instead of high
task performance the priority of the group is to
conclude its activities.
 The most effective interventions in this stage are
those that facilitate task termination and the
disengagement process. It involves the termination
of task behaviors and disengagement from
relationships.
 Develop a closure activity to help members determine
what they have learned/how they have benefited,

10. THANK YOU