Organisational Behaviour Assignment
Why do some groups function effectively whilst others are dysfunctional? In your answer, draw on theories and concepts from across the module, and illustrate your views with examples from organisation(s) you are familiar with or have researched.

Introduction
The use of groups within organisations has increased on a global scale in recent years.
This fact alone suggests that a group demographic confers many tangible benefits to an organisation. A ‘group’ in this instance is a set of employees brought together with the aim that their individual skills will lead to higher productivity when combined, than if they were each working as a separate entity. The employees may have similar skills in a specific field of the company’s activity, for example the group of Research and Development employees brought together for the focus groups involved in the development of the new Windows OS Vista. Groups may also have contrasting skills that enable them to cooperate towards a common goal, for example; a group of interdisciplinary employees may be assembled to perform a task that requires multi-departmental cooperation but cannot facilitate indirect communication between departments i.e. they don’t have to time to communicate indirectly.
For example when the Environmental Protection Agency is commissioned to perform a survey; it assembles a group of geologists, hydrologists, ecologists etc to go and assess the site. The dynamics and psychology of groups has been well studied and documented especially by Tuckman and Gersick whom

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we will focus upon in due course. The organisation of the staff within a company can have a massive impact upon how the company functions and on its productivity, so it is important for businesses to examine and review their organisational