The Functional Perspective as a Lens for Understanding Groups

Wittenbaum, Gwen M.; Hollingshead, Andrea B.; Paulus, Paul B.; Hirokawa, Randy Y.; Ancona, Deborah; Peterson, Randall S.; Jehn, Karen A.; Yoon, Kay

doi:10.1177/1046496403259459

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“…It is important to note the potential issues that can arise from the collaborative problem-solving process, such as groupthink, which represents an excessive drive for unanimity that supersedes the team's drive for thorough critical thinking and problem solving (Janis, 1972). Consequently, poor group decisions can be made, such as International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology 239 altering team strategies that ultimately end up decreasing team success (Wittenbaum et al, 2004). Teams need to be wary of these potential repercussions -particularly highly cohesive teams who are especially prone to groupthink (e.g., Rovio, Eskola, Kozub, Duda, & Lintunen, 2009) -and be resolute on finding solutions that will most benefit the team, even if this causes disagreements throughout the process (Janis, 1972;Wittenbaum et al, 2004).…”

Section: Regulation Of Team Performancementioning

confidence: 98%

Teamwork in sport: a theoretical and integrative review

McEwan

Beauchamp

2014

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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A commonly held belief in sports is the need for team members to be able to work well together in order for that team to be successful. Despite this assumption, research in the field of sport psychology has yet to formally or sufficiently conceptualize what is meant by teamwork. In this theoretical and integrative review, we draw from the extant organizational psychology and team development literature to present a multidimensional conceptual framework of teamwork in sport. We provide a working definition of teamwork in sport and discuss how teamwork sits within a broader model of team effectiveness. We conclude by providing an overview of salient research avenues on teamwork and team effectiveness in sport, which have potential implications for guiding interventions with sports teams.

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Section: Regulation Of Team Performancementioning

confidence: 98%

Teamwork in sport: a theoretical and integrative review

McEwan

Beauchamp

2014

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

147

173

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“…At one extreme, there are models that make very limited assumptions about communication functions and judge the effect of communication based on the relationship between antecedents and decisions (whether these are actually functional models is open to question, but see Wittenbaum, Hollingshead, Paulus, et al, 2004). For example, researchers working within the social decision scheme (SDS) framework have identified a form of influence called ''truth wins'' where one member provides the ''right'' answer for the group to successfully solve the problem.…”

Section: Functional Approaches To Group Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Functional Communication as Egocentric or Group-Centric: Application of a Latent Group Model

Bonito¹,

Meyers

2011

Communication Monographs

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Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes). Rather than approach the problem as either/or, we assume that functional communication consists of both processes. To explore this assumption, we applied two models that offer contrasting views on this debate*Hewes's (1986, 1996, 2009) socio-egocentric model and Gonzalez and Griffin's (2002) latent group model*to four published group interaction datasets to examine the extent to which communication has individual-and group-level characteristics. Analyzed individually, the data exhibited a large proportion of egocentricity but very little grouplevel connections. An analysis of the combined and recoded data, however, revealed that discussion consists of both egocentric and group speech, but that the patterns differ. We then discuss the theoretical implications for observed patterns at different levels of analysis in the data.

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“…The functional perspective examines groups in terms of the inputs and processes that function to influence group effectiveness [30,34]. This perspective considers group performance as its main focus.…”

Section: The Functional Perspective and The General Input-processoutpmentioning

confidence: 99%