Identify and briefly describe five individual roles that hinder group achievement. How do these roles impede the group process?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Aggressor: expresses negative evaluation of members and attacks the group.
- Recognition seekers and self-confessors: try to focus attention on themselves, boast about their accomplishments rather than the task at hand, and express their own feelings rather than focus on the group.
- Blocker: provides negative feedback, is disagreeable, and opposes other members or suggestions regardless of their merit.
- Special interest pleader: disregards the goals of the group and pleads the case of some special group.
- Dominator: tries to run the group or members by pulling rank, flattering members, or acting the role of the boss.
- These individual roles hinder the group from achieving its goals and are individually oriented rather than group orienteered. These roles make the group less effective in terms of both productivity and the personal satisfaction of members.
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