Academic literature on the topic 'Groupdynamics'

The current study aimed at describing the life of undergraduate student of Faculty of PsychologyAtma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia through peer group dynamics. Peer group oftendetermined who will be asked to join for doing an academic group task (‘kelompok tugas’), whowill be chosen to hang out together (‘teman nongkrong’), dan who can be trusted to talk aboutpersonal issues (‘teman curhat’). Peer groups were not static, thus we also explored peer groupdynamics based on time dimension, i.e. beginning (‘semester 2’), middle (‘semester 4’) and end(‘semester 6’) period of study. An explorative-descriptive research design with sociometric methodswere used in the study. Participants were 126 undergraduate students from the same year of entry.Data were analyzed by means of sociomatrix, choice status of a person and sociogram. The resultsshowed the differences peer group dynamics between situations (kelompok tugas, teman nongkrong,teman curhat) and between periods of study (semester 2, semester 4, semester 6). This studyrevealed the possible use of sociometric methods for policy socialization strategy and as a methodfor identifying potential academic and non-academic problems.

Teamwork involves different types of interactions—specifically cooperation andcollaboration—that are necessary in education and many other professions. The differencesbetween cooperation and collaboration underline the teacher’s role in influencing groupdynamics, which represent both a foundation for professional design education and aprequalification for students’ competences as teachers and for critical evaluation. As a testcase, we focused on the Working Together action-research project in design education forspecialised teacher training in design, arts, and crafts at the Oslo Metropolitan University,which included three student groups in the material areas of drawing, ceramics, and textiles.The project developed the participants’ patience, manual skills, creativity, and abilities,which are important personal qualities for design education and innovation and representcornerstones in almost every design literacy and business environment. The hope is thatstudents will transform these competences to teaching pupils of all ages in their futurecareers.

Denna studie har, utifrån den hermeneutiska traditionen, utförts på en psykiatrisk verksamhet i syfte att nå en förståelse för vad det på mikronivå kan innebära att arbeta emotionellt. Inledningsvis fördjupade vi oss i vetenskapliga artiklar vilka gav oss verktyg att arbeta med för att öka förståelsen av fältet. Detta uppmärksammade viktiga faktorer som betydelsen av samarbete, gemenskap och emotionshantering som de anställda utför. Psykiatrin betraktas som ett emotionellt arbete vilket gör att de anställda kan påverkas av de starka emotioner som råder. Den känslomässiga karaktären kan medföra ett behov för den anställde att hantera sina emotioner i syfte att undvika den eventuella belastningen det kan innebära. Strategier de anställda använder sig utav kan exempelvis vara genom deras förhållning gentemot patienterna och emotionerna, det samarbete som återfinns bland kollegorna samt de interaktionsritualer de ingår i. Vårt empiriska material samlades in genom kvalitativa intervjuer som sedan studerades utifrån teorierna kring emotionellt arbete, interaktionsritualer och effektiva team. Detta, tillsammans med vetenskapliga artiklar, gav oss material för att kunna besvara vår frågeställning.
This study has, based on hermeneutic science, taken place in a psychiatric workplace in order to reach an understanding of what it can imply on micro level to work in such organizations. We initiated the study by reading scientific articles in order to increase our understanding of the field which also gave us tools to work with. This brought up the significance of collaboration and solidarity in the workplace and also the management of emotions the employees performs as important components for the study. The psychiatry is seen as an emotional labor which implies that employees may be affected by the strong emotions that are found at work. The emotional nature may imply the need for the employees to manage their emotions in order to avoid the possible impact it might entail. Their attitude towards patients and emotions along with the interaction rituals and collaboration within the workgroup are examples of strategies the employees use to manage the emotions. This stated above was studied based on the theories of emotional labor, interaction rituals and effective teams. This, along with scientific articles and qualitative interviews, gave us material to reach a result.