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Management and Social Science Department
Centre for Foundation Studies and Extension Education
(FOSEE)
Group Dynamics
Foundation in Management
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Introduction to Group Dynamics
“Although the scientific investigations of group work are but a few years old, I don’t hesitate to predict that group work – that is, the handling of human beings not as isolated individuals, but in the social setting of groups – will soon be one of the most important theoretical and practical fields … there is no hope for creating a better world without a deeper scientific insight into the … essentials of group life.” Kurt Lewin (1943)
•Overview
•What is a group?
•Why groups are important
•Nature and types of groups
•What does it take to have a productive group?
•Stages of group development
•The field of group dynamics
•Kurt Lewin
•Summary questions
•Can you Imagine your Life without Belonging to Other People?
•Membership in groups is inevitable and ubiquitous.
•We are not able to survive without belonging to groups – we are born into one, and interact in groups for most of our lives
•Our personal identity is derived from the way in which we are perceived and treated by other members of groups we belong to.
•Understanding group dynamics is essential to
–Maintaining a viable family
–Effective business and industries
–Education
–Long term maintenance of psychological health
•Knowledge of group dynamics can and will change your life
Group Dynamics
•Group dynamics is the scientific study of:
–The nature of groups
–Behavior in groups
–Group development
–Interrelations between groups and individuals
–Interrelations between groups and other groups
•A Group is a Number of Individuals who …
a. Join together to achieve a goal
b. Are all affected by the same event – they are interdependent
c. Interact with one another
d. Perceive themselves as belonging to a group
e. Whose interactions
Centre for Foundation Studies and Extension Education
(FOSEE)
Group Dynamics
Foundation in Management
ONLINE NOTES
Topic 1
Topic 1
Introduction to Group Dynamics
“Although the scientific investigations of group work are but a few years old, I don’t hesitate to predict that group work – that is, the handling of human beings not as isolated individuals, but in the social setting of groups – will soon be one of the most important theoretical and practical fields … there is no hope for creating a better world without a deeper scientific insight into the … essentials of group life.” Kurt Lewin (1943)
•Overview
•What is a group?
•Why groups are important
•Nature and types of groups
•What does it take to have a productive group?
•Stages of group development
•The field of group dynamics
•Kurt Lewin
•Summary questions
•Can you Imagine your Life without Belonging to Other People?
•Membership in groups is inevitable and ubiquitous.
•We are not able to survive without belonging to groups – we are born into one, and interact in groups for most of our lives
•Our personal identity is derived from the way in which we are perceived and treated by other members of groups we belong to.
•Understanding group dynamics is essential to
–Maintaining a viable family
–Effective business and industries
–Education
–Long term maintenance of psychological health
•Knowledge of group dynamics can and will change your life
Group Dynamics
•Group dynamics is the scientific study of:
–The nature of groups
–Behavior in groups
–Group development
–Interrelations between groups and individuals
–Interrelations between groups and other groups
•A Group is a Number of Individuals who …
a. Join together to achieve a goal
b. Are all affected by the same event – they are interdependent
c. Interact with one another
d. Perceive themselves as belonging to a group
e. Whose interactions