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LACK OF COMMUNICATION OF GOALS AND EXPECTATIONS Failure to communicate a group’s goals and expectations for a project can play a major role in failure. Groups that actively communicate with each other in order to establish specific group goals are more likely to have success than those where each individual is just doing what they think is best (Wegge & Haslam, 2004). Employee Implications Managerial implications Social loafing ❏ Poor performance ❏ Motivation ❏ Productivity ❏ Job Satisfaction ❏ Organisational cooperation ❏ Workplace Involvement ❏ Efficiency ❏

Recommendations for communicating Goals ❏ Set out time at the beginning of the process to thoroughly discuss their expectations and objectives (De Janasz, Crossman, Campbell, & Power, 2014). ❏ Create a document which states the objectives and expectations, including deadlines, which all members should sign (De Janasv et al., 2014). ❏ ❏ Having specific goals Repeat and revise goals and expectations ❏ ❏ Create checkpoints to ensure people don't overlap responsibilities.

Conflict Recommendations Issues surrounding roles and Assigning and repeating specific roles ❏ responsibilities is one of the most recurring and the expectations causes of conflict within a team. Body Language and Tonality ❏ - A member taking on responsibilities of Group training/activity days ❏ another and crossing boundaries Interviene and suggest alternate ❏ - Members don’t agree on certain topics directions - Members have alternate points of view

Groupthink Groupthink causes team members to value reaching agreements, unanimously and often prematurely, without considering all the alternatives (Houghton, 2015) Employee Implications Implications to Managers Stress ❏ Poor Performance ❏ ❏ Motivation ❏ Costly decisions Poor performance ❏ Damage to brand and ❏ reputation

Groupthink Recommendations Organisational culture ensures both creative and critical thinking and analysis ❏ Diverse range of group members allowing for diverse points of view ❏ Be aware of the risk of groupthink and actively express their opinions ❏ Recognise risk of groupthink

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