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Group Development

Groups form for various reasons like belongingness and fulfilling needs. They develop through stages including forming, storming, norming, and performing. Kurt Lewin's model of change involves unfreezing old ways, transitioning to new behaviors and freezing them in place. Tuckman's stages of group development describes how groups initially feel out roles, then disagree, establish norms, and work toward goals before disbanding.

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Group Development

Groups form for various reasons like belongingness and fulfilling needs. They develop through stages including forming, storming, norming, and performing. Kurt Lewin's model of change involves unfreezing old ways, transitioning to new behaviors and freezing them in place. Tuckman's stages of group development describes how groups initially feel out roles, then disagree, establish norms, and work toward goals before disbanding.

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VERITAS ET MISERICORDIA

LESSON 2 AND 3
GROUP DEVELOPMENT
GROUP DEVELOPMENT
 People form groups for different reasons.
 They have constant need for belongingness and
satisfaction that can be fulfilled by group
membership.
 Involvement in a group can satisfy a variety of
needs such as companionship, survival and
security, affiliation and status, power, control and
achievement.
 Groups can vary in numbers, communication
styles, interest and structure.
GROUP DEVELOPMENT
 Groups can be formal or informal.
 When a person was born there is a social
organization wherein the person interacts and
we call that primary unit is the family.
 As the person develops, there is a constant need
to interact with others leading to formation of
secondary groups whether in the community,
school or at work.
DEFINITION OF GROUP
 Sherif and Sherif (1969) defined a group as “a social unit
which consists of a number of individuals who stand in role
and status relationship to one another stabilized in some
degree at the time and who possess a set of value or norms of
their own regulating their behavior atleast in matter of
consequence to the group.”
 According to Gordon (2001), a collection of people is called
group. A group has its set of characteristics; (a) the members
of the group must see themselves as a unit; (b) the group must
provide rewards to its members; (c) anything that happens to
one member of the group affectsevery other member; and (d)
the members of the group must share a common goal.
KURT LEWIN’S INDIVIDUAL CHANGE PROCESS
Kurt Lewin coined the term “group dynamics” and his model of
individual change, which served as the basis of many models of group
development.  
 Unfreezing . This first stage of change involves reducing the forces that
are striving to maintain the status quo, and dismantling the current
mindset. For instance, presenting a provocative problem or event to get
people to recognize the need for change and to search for new solutions.
 Transition. The second stage which involves development of new
behaviors, values and attitudes, structure and process changes and
development techniques.  
 Freeze. The final stage of crystallizing and the adaptation of ownership
as the new ‘as is”. The Organization may revert to former ways of doing
things at this point unless changes are reinforced through freezing.
TUCKMAN’S STAGES OF GROUP DEVELOPMENT

Tuckman draw on the movement known as group dynamics, which is


concerned with why groups behave in particular ways develop in for phases
namely forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. The
fifth and final stage adjourning was added in 1977 by Tuckman and Jensen.
 Forming. The first stage of the team process, in which team members “feel
out” the team concept and attempt to make a positive impression.
 Storming. The second stage in group formation in which group members
disagree and resist their teamroles.
 Norming. The third stage of the team process, in which teams establish
roles and determine policies and procedures. 
 Performing. The fourth stage of the team process, in which teams work
toward accomplishing their goals.
 Adjourning. The final stage of team process, in which the group wraps up
its work and then dissolves
TUCKMAN’S FIVE (5) STAGE THEORY

FORMING STORMING NORMING PERFORMING


INDIVIDUAL “How do I fit in?” “What do the “What do others “How can I best
ISSUES others expect me expect me to perform my
to do?” do?” role?”

GROUP “Why are we “Can we agree on “Can we agree on “Can we do the


ISSUES here?” roles and work as roles and work as job properly?”
a team?” a team?”

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