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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Task and Maintenance Functions

In the last byte, we looked at status structures and discussed who it affects the forming of a mature group. In today's byte we, look at some of the functions that the group takes up and discuss it further.

If we look at an effective group and try to understand the various functions that are involved in the group, we could classify them into two classes:
  1. Task Functions
  2. Maintenance Functions
Task functions refer to activities that are directly related to the effective completion of a team's work.
Maintenance functions refer to the activities that are essential to an effective, satisfying interpersonal relationship within a team or a group.

The following table highlights some of these tasks:


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