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What is Group Productivity

Group productivity is a successful element to any


person's business. This essentially means
harnessing the power of teams to multiply the
individual efforts of the people who are serving
with the organization. (Rasing, 2010)
Inspiration and influence are the best tools to help
achieve group productivity. It motivates the entire
team and makes them to achieve the objective of
the company. In other words we can say that it
increases the cooperation among workers and
make them more competent to achieve the goal of
their company.


Johnson and Johnson's five
elements in Group Productivity
1. POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE
Johnson and Johnson (1994) observed that
interdependence may be accomplished in the
following four ways:
Goals
Resources
Rewards
Roles

2. Face-to-Face Interaction
To consolidate and build new understanding, groups
need to have considerable face-to-face interaction.
Importantly, these interactions should be designed to
encourage the exchange of ideas and not just to work
out the logistics of completing the assignment.

3. Individual and Group Accountability
The key to this accountability system is that the
members of the group are aware that each individual
will receive a grade and that each is a participant in the
evaluation process. Each group member may provide
feedback on his or her own performance and the work
of others. Johnson and Johnson (1994) also suggest
that a group "checker" be identified to ask each
member to explain the group's work or responses.

4. Interpersonal and Small-Group Skills
Group work should promote frequent use of interpersonal
and small-group skills. These are some of the applied skills
held in such high regard by employers, and they include
the ability to resolve conflicts in a constructive manner, to
communicate effectively, and to ably draw upon the
strengths of others to solve problems. Although they are
young, students in classrooms that feature productive
group work are learning each day how to organize and
coordinate efforts and are acquiring a results-oriented
outlook that will serve them well through years to come.

5. Group Processing

Although it's the most easily overlooked of all the
elements of cooperative learning, frequent and regular
group processing is the key to a group's future
effectiveness. Teachers often forget to include this step
in their group work design.
Providing a Meaningful Task

To Johnson and Johnson's five principles of cooperative
learning, we would like to add a sixth: a meaningful
task. A task for productive group work must offer a
challenge or a problem to solve to make all of those
principles of cooperative learning come into play. A
spirit of cooperation can bloom when a group is
collectively faced with a difficult job to do.

The Ringelmann effect
is the tendency for individual members of a group
to become increasingly less productive as the size
of their group increases.
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This effect, discovered by
French agricultural engineer Maximilien
Ringelmann (18611931).
Furthermore, Ringelmann discovered that as more and
more people are added to a group, the group often becomes
increasingly inefficient, ultimately violating the notion that
group effort and team participation reliably leads to
increased effort on behalf of the members.

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