In the last byte, we looked at group cohesion. In today's byte, we look status structure and attempt to understand how this influences the characteristics of a mature group.
Status structure refers to the set of authority and task relations among a group's members! However there is no specific indication of how these status structures are created - it could be hierarchical or democratic - it depends on the group in discussion. If these issues are resolved within a team, it would result in a well-understood status structure and a good leader-follower relationship that emerges.
Leadership in a team could also be of two types depending on the team in question. It could be a single person acting as the task master of the group setting agenda, initiating much of the work activity and ensuring the team meets its deadlines or could also be a shared leadership in which case there are multiple group members taking up different but interrelated leadership roles in the group settings. Example for the second kind: there could be someone who could be a task master while there could be someone else in the team who maintains the interpersonal relationships to an optimal level.
There could be role diversity in a group and these could be classified into one of the following ways:
Status structure refers to the set of authority and task relations among a group's members! However there is no specific indication of how these status structures are created - it could be hierarchical or democratic - it depends on the group in discussion. If these issues are resolved within a team, it would result in a well-understood status structure and a good leader-follower relationship that emerges.
Leadership in a team could also be of two types depending on the team in question. It could be a single person acting as the task master of the group setting agenda, initiating much of the work activity and ensuring the team meets its deadlines or could also be a shared leadership in which case there are multiple group members taking up different but interrelated leadership roles in the group settings. Example for the second kind: there could be someone who could be a task master while there could be someone else in the team who maintains the interpersonal relationships to an optimal level.
There could be role diversity in a group and these could be classified into one of the following ways:
- Contributor - one who is data driven, supplies necessary information, adheres to high performance standards
- Collaborator - sees the big picture, keeps the focus on the mission constantly, urges other members to join the effort for accomplishing the mission
- Communicator - listens well and facilitates the group processes and humanizes the collective effort
- Challenger - acts as a devil’s advocate
Over and above these it would definitely help if there is the role of an integrator who stitches the various role diversities in a group.
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