Help me study for my Humanities class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.
For this week, we learned that group size is an important factor that affects functions performed in a group. Smaller groups complete tasks faster than larger ones. They are also more productive than large groups. Large groups, on the other hand, generate more facts, collect diverse and open viewpoints, generate more solutions to problems. However, with increase in size of the group, contribution of individual member tends to decrease (Fredman et al., 2015). The responsibility for group goal gets dispersed amongst larger number of members and members, therefore, tend to slacken in their individual performance. Relationship between individual input and group output cannot be maintained as group results cannot be attributed to any single person.
This tends to reduce efficiency of the group. Large groups also develop sub-groups, restrict participation by some members, take too much time in making decisions, promote dominance by few etc. Thus, the optimum group size should be large enough to invite diverse viewpoints and small enough to fix each individual’s responsibility and promote inter-personal interaction.
It also emerged that in organization behavior, groups are formed based on some standards and rules. These standards and rules form part of the group’s norms and will affect individual behavior because each person is expected to conform to the set of standards and/ or rules. These norms will determine how an individual works within the organization or group (Charness & Chen, 2020). The norms may be presented through different aspects of the working group and include the following: Social norms determine how an individual acts or behaves when in the company of colleagues. The individual will likely reflect the social values and traits of the group. Performance norms determine an individual’s input and output within the working group. The individual will likely perform a set of roles and duties as expected by members of the group to ensure his or her overall task is accomplished (Zaki & Sayed, 2018). Status determines the rank and file of an individual within an organization or a group. For instance, a team leader is expected to perform certain duties that will show and confirm their level of authority within the group. Thus, the team leader’s position will require assertiveness, which would affect the individual’s behavior.
You have been working at Saxet Consulting for the past year and are expected to complete three client reviews per week. You have been very productive and have been completing two extra reviews per week. At a recent team meeting, you expected to receive praise from the President for this extra work; however, your manager took credit for the extra work and received the praise from the President. What has your manager violated and what is your likely reaction?
The manager has violated the ethical code of conduct of the organization. As all the employees are expected to be honest about the work they have done and not take credit for something that was done by someone else. This behaviour reduces the integrity and loyalty that the other team members would have in the manager in the future with respect to taking credit for someones else work. Other employees might also soon start doing it if this goes unreported. I would go and speak to the manager and ask him the reason for doing so and ensure that he has committed a mistake and ensure that the credit is given to where it is due.
References
Charness, G., & Chen, Y. (2020). Social identity, group behavior, and teams. Annual Review of Economics, 12.
Fredman, L. A., Buhrmester, M. D., Gomez, A., Fraser, W. T., Talaifar, S., Brannon, S. M., & Swann Jr, W. B. (2015). Identity fusion, extreme pro‐group behavior, and the path to defusion. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(9), 468-480.
Zaki, M. H., & Sayed, T. (2018). Automated analysis of pedestrian group behavior in urban settings. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(6), 1880-1889.
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