Saturday, February 13, 2010
Question #3: Roles in groups
I found the topic that discussed roles and how they are split into two different general categories to be very interesting. The text stated that roles can be used to improve the overall task or functionality of the group to get the task done, or that roles can be used to improve the social and emotional needs of the group. Roles such as this are very present in sports. Certain athletes have the role of being a scorer or a defender. These are roles that help get the overall task done, which is to win. Then there are those who play the role of affecting the group’s overall emotional or social state. Coaches are a great example because they are not on the playing field physically affecting the game, but they make decisions that govern the social state of the team. If they yell at a particular player, it can affect his or her morale which will affect the team’s emotional state as a whole. Even particular players that do not play very much can have a great attitude or be full of enthusiasm which allows players in the game to feed off of them. Roles give us all personal identity within our groups which makes each person unique to the group.
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Your post is to the point. Sport teams are a perfect example that illustrates how roles are played in a group. If we take a look at how soccer teams work, as in many sports, their role and responsibilities for each team members are clearly defined. In a soccer teams, there are 11 players. One is goal keeper, 3 or 4 are defenders, another 3 or 4 midfielders (different types that some teams have are right or left outside, defensive midfielder, offensive midfielder, right center, left center, and center), and 2 or 3 forwards (right, left, and sometimes center). Even though these positions exist, there is no such thing as a fixed position in. Players may interchange positions according to the flow of the game. In other words, the players role is to winning the game.
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