ABSTRACT
We shall begin by comparing the ways in which group members proceed in achieving shared goals with the ways in which individuals direct their activities to individual goals. These differences, whatever they turn out to be, are associated with the presence and the absence of interaction among group members. Then we shall examine the differentiated contributions that various members make to goal achievement as they interact, with special attention to the phenomena of leadership. And, finally, we shall inquire about certain characteristics of the group as a whole that are bound to affect the processes of goal achievement, just as an individual’s personal characteristics will affect his modes of achieving his own goals. We shall show how group cohesiveness, as a
group property of general importance, both affects and is affected by the interaction processes involved in the goal-directed activities of groups.
