PSYCHOLOGY QUESTION::::;;;; What are factors for the Group Formation?

            Group is an interaction of two or more people and share common identity, altitude and purpose. Or it refers to the minimum who came together on a free and voluntary basis and a spirit of co-operation expressed by mutual love and assistance sister or brother hood, Justice and Honesty to work together for mutual social and Economic benefit. In this case a group might be a women group registered with National council of women, District community Development department(By Phil Bartel,1987).Also group refers to number of things or people that are located close together or are considered or classed together(extracted from Dictionary.com)

              There many types of Group  but can be categorized into the following Groups: Formal and Informal Group. Also there some processes or stages of Group formation as follows; Forming Group means comes together, Storming Group means providing roles to members,Norming Group assigning agreements on their goals, Performing Group means Implementation of the provided roles and responsibilities and Adjourning Group means the achievements of their and End of the group surviving because of either goals has been achievements or disagreements.

              

 Group formation refers to the process of getting together and share common interests, altitudes, and purposes within the members. Group formation does not comes from the vacuum ,it has some several influences factors for joining and forming Group as follows;

             

 To maintain the Interest.People do form group  in order to maintain their interests,example,a person can form a group so that to either gain profit from  the goals like the group can be formed with purpose of helping disabled people, this will enable the member  to continue having things from that group because such kind of group will be assisted with some funds in order to boost their roles established.

              

 To get security from others, some people form group in order to get security from their fellows, example the formed group is about to resist against terrorism. This will enable the members when is being attacked by the terrorists, their fellow members will help him to search them hence unity over Inhuman acts. Also it so called “ulinzi shirikishi”

                

To achieve the personal goals. People form group in order to achieve their goals.Example the Group formed at various Universities like Ant corruption Group, this aimed at imparting knowledge to the members whereby at the end of the year of studies each member will be having his or her own way ,this is because they had achieved their goals.

          

 To maintain Prestige.Other people form group in order to proceed praised by the other people.Example,the Group formed to deal with the investigation of people who are corrupt or any formed committee, to these groups the people seemed to be having high position or rank in Government will form the group, Also people are likely to form Group with the people who have the same economic status so that to maintain their prestige hence their can not form with the poor one while are in different level of economic matters. By doing so the maintain their status to others.

           

  Physical proximity. This means that people are likely to form the Group with the people from the same area. Example the people who comes from the same village are likely to form Group than those who comes from different villages, this is because have the same altitudes,aims,purpose and culturally the same, this can help them to organize early than those comes from different places hence this can be the great factor hindering group formation.

            

 The factor of being rewarded. Some people form group in order to get some thing, example some project has been introduced by either the Government or by a certain great person and produce some conditions for attaining it like He or she need five people, automatically the people are likely to form the Group in order to have qualifications for being rewarded. Also this factor more influential to more people because every body need to be rewarded, example the Team of football players they do form and struggle hard in  order to achieve a certain goals they targeted at that time.

           

  To pull together scarce resources, own and manage themselves in order to fight against poverty, food shortage, powerlessness of an individual person against market forces, Unemployment and low self esteem. These things force the people to Group in order to overcome these things hence group formation.

                

Physical  attraction. Individual who are physically attractive might form a Group, example, young and energetic boys and girls. This is among strong factor which influence group  formation among people who are interesting to each other.

The factors for social support. This lead the people to form the group so that would be able to be provided with either in time of Crisis actually people form Group so that to settle their problems facing them, examples are SAC COS,VIKOBA,and circle contribution of women around the street.

           

 The cultural factors persons who come to work from various society and culture. It happen when they place of work is far from their place of original region and culture they do not feel uncomfortable at work. The person could be absence of the culture celebration. This is one of the reason for which an individuals coming from the same culture. tradition and speaking similar language usually from the Group.

      

 By concluding, Although Group formation it can lead to some positive and negative Impacts, example it can lead to disagreements over the set goals, and can lead to the decline of the Group, also it can lead to the high efficiencies like achievements of their goals established by the members.