Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Five Characteristics of Groups
- Interaction
- Groups create, organize, and sustain relationship and task interactions among members
- Goals
- Groups have instrumental purposes, for they facilitate the achievement of aims or outcomes sought
by the members
- Interdependence
- Group members depend on one another, in that each member influences and is influenced by each
other member
- Structure
- Groups are organized, with each individual connected to others in a pattern of relationships, rules,
and norms
- Cohesion
- Groups unite members in a bonded network of interpersonal relations recognized by both members
of the group and those outside of it