oh my god ! damn stress. accounting is getting me nowhere. keep getting the wrong answers. ob is information overload. and luckily decan's over. and the paper was tough lah ! out of 4 questions i only have confidence for one question ! cause i got the answer.

so studied ob today. tried to focus but my mind kept drifting. in the end it took me pretty long to finish one chapter. i only finished one chapter today. out of 10 ! okay so studied leadership abit. so okay that's like one and a half chapter.

i so love ob. nah just joking. anyway i'm gonna type what i have learnt today. so that i won't forget you see. don't mind me. it's not for anyone to read just for myself to recap.

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groups - 2 or more individuals, interacting and interdependent, coming together to achieve particular objectives.

stages of group development are forming - much uncertainty, storming - intragroup conflict, norming - close relationships and cohesiveness, performing - group fully functional and adjourning - more concern on wrapping up activities rather than task performance.

reasons for groups
1) affilation - social interaction
2) security - no more "standing alone"
3) status - provides recognition and makes individuals feel more important
4) power - some things can't be achieved individually, requires group's power
5) self esteem - provides feelings of self-worth
6) goal achievement - pool talents to achieve goal as different people have different abilities

norms - acceptable standards of behaviour in a group that are adopted and shared by group's members.

types of norms
1) performance - level of output, effort to put in
2) appearance - dress code for different occassions
3) social arrangement
4) allocation of resources - pay, resources

cohesiveness - degree to which members in the group are attracted to each other and are motivated to stay in the group

aiya i'm lazy to type. my head's hurting. goodnight !

smile (:
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