Lead And Manage Team Effectiveness Report

Running Head: LEAD AND MANAGE TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
Lead and Manage Team Effectiveness
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Group Dynamics
The systematic behaviour, as well as the psychological process that mainly occurs in a
social group or two or more social groups, are considered to be the group dynamics. The term
group dynamics is being coined by the famous social psychologist Kurt Lewin in the year
1890-1947, which solely describes the positive as well as negative forces that are there in a
group. This also helps the individual in the decision-making process as well (1).
Three Aspects of Group Dynamics
In group dynamics, three significant aspects can create a negative effect on team
management and they are excessive competition which might negatively impact team
performance. There is no personal recognition in the group dynamics, which might affect
adversely along with that there is danger in the groupthink as people might lose their
creativity in the process (2). In group dynamics, this type of negative impact on team
performance can be seen, and this needs to be eliminated to uplift the team performance.
Social Loafing
Social loafing is considered to be the type of people who exert less effort so that the
group can reach the target as they are in a group. This creates a negative effect on team
performance as this demotivates the other team member.
This can disturb the culture of the team, and the team will be unable to provide high
performance in the market. This can also demotivate the team members as well to ensure
low-quality performance (3).

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This also put a negative effect on the size of the team as people might leave the group
as they are not getting personal recognition for performing well in the team from the other
candidates (4).
Preventing Social Loafing
The leader can avoid the social loafing in the group by taking precaution, which will
assist them in uplifting the performance of the team in the market and enabling them to
achieve their goal in it. The three precautions are as follows: the team should use metrics so
that they can measure the contribution of the individual towards the team goal (5). The leader
must ensure that there is a transparency in the individual tasks as well as in the goals. Lastly,
the leader should keep track of the progress of the assignment of the individual. This will
enable them to prevent social loafing.
Phenomenon of Groupthink
Groupthink is considered to be the psychological phenomenon where the members of
the group tend to find the conformity, which ultimately results in the dysfunctional of the
decision-making process of the group. This finally minimizes the conflict that might occur in
the group and assist them in making a collective decision for the benefit of the group (6).
Therefore, this needs to look after by the group so that they can achieve success in the
process and help them to work accordingly in the process.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Group Decision-Making
Advantages Disadvantages
 In group decision-making, there is a
diversity in the opinion, which assist
the leader with the option to look
 Group decision-making is quite a
time consuming as all the members
are not agree with the same decision