Groups and Goals

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This paper provides an overview of goals and what the growing body of literature has to say about groups and their composition. An evaluation of how groups come together or not to accomplish their goals is followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.

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"The components of a high-level functioning group include a membership that has committed itself to the common purposes of "maximizing their own and each other's success"; members are happy to work together; positive interdependence to serves to unite group members in achieving clear operational goals; two-way communication; distributed leadership; power based on expertise rather than some spurious consideration; a decision-making procedure that is appropriate to the situation; an atmosphere that provides the freedom to challenge other group members' information and reasoning; and to constructively resolve conflicts within the group (Johnson & Johnson, 2003, p. 22)."

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