HCM 433 MANGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR.pdf

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Socialization of New Employees: Sociologists described the process of orientating
new employees as socialization. By this they mean teaching the new employee the
work norms, that is how to behave at work. In some cases group “slow down”
employees who are “working too hard” and showing up other members. But they
so the opposite also. if an employee is not working enough, the group pressures
him or her to “get inline”.
This pressure takes the form of talking to the employee, sluming or ignoring him or
her, or in extreme cases, physical pressures, thus, the group orientates and integrates
the new employee into the organization ‘work rules and norms and keeps the employee
under control. The supervisor can not watch every employee all the time, but the group
can.
b Getting the job done: Although theoretically the enterprise s responsible for
training the new employee and getting the work done, this (task is often
accomplished by the work group. Usually the new employee gets some training on
how to do the job, but this is rarely enough to get the job done well. The work
group really teaches the employee how t cope with the job,, how to handle the
numerous techniques taught in the training programme that are needed to get the
job done. Many parts of the job may have to be done by two or more people some
one in the work group helps out at such times.
This work groups facilitate both training and operations and therefore are beneficial to the
organization.
c Decision making: in addition, groups are used for decision making, negotiating
and bargaining thus, group members with diverse packgrounds may bring different
perspectives to the decision-making process. Hence some decisions turn out better
when several people make them jointly than if one person makes them alone.
3.5 THEORIES OF GROUP FORMATION
Some classic theories have been put forward to explain group formation or why people affiliation
with one another.
1. The most basic theory explaining affiliation is Propinquity. The word propinquity simply
means that individuals affiliate with one another because of spatial or geographical proximity.
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