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Social loafing. In social psychology, social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when working alone. [ 1][ 2] It is seen as one of the main reasons groups are sometimes less productive than the combined performance of their members working as individuals.
Teamwork is the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in an effective and efficient way. [ 1][ 2] Teamwork is seen within the framework of a team, which is a group of interdependent individuals who work together towards a common goal. [ 3][ 1] The four [clarification needed] key characteristics of a team ...
Social group work and group psychotherapy have primarily developed along parallel paths. Where the roots of contemporary group psychotherapy are often traced to the group education classes of tuberculosis patients conducted by Joseph Pratt in 1906, the exact birth of social group work can not be easily identified (Kaiser, 1958; Schleidlinger, 2000; Wilson, 1976).
Group work. Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning, that enhances the total output of the activity than when done individually. It aims to cater for individual differences, and develop skills such as communication skills, collaborative skills, critical thinking skills, etc.
Positive interdependence. Positive interdependence is an element of cooperative and collaborative learning where members of a group who share common goals perceive that working together is individually and collectively beneficial, and success depends on the participation of all the members. [ 1][ 2] In contrast to negative interdependence (i.e ...
Tuckman's stages of group development. The forming–storming–norming–performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, [ 1] who said that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for a team to grow, face up to challenges, tackle problems, find solutions, plan work, and deliver results.
In social psychology and sociology, an in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. By contrast, an out-group is a social group with which an individual does not identify. People may for example identify with their peer group, family, community, sports team, political party, gender, sexual ...
T-groups. A T-group or training group (sometimes also referred to as sensitivity-training group, human relations training group or encounter group) is a form of group training where participants (typically between eight and fifteen people) learn about themselves (and about small group processes in general) through their interaction with each ...