ABSTRACT
The obvious difference is that group goals are social matters and require at least some degree of consensus before they can be prosecuted by enough of the members to warrant their being called group goals. By the acceptance of a group goal is meant that the individual believes he will attain good outcomes when the task is put into the state designated by the goal. Group goals resemble individual goals in that action is taken in both cases to put a task in a particular state; but group goals are more nearly like norms in their dependence on at least some degree of consensus among the members. By acceptance of a group goal is meant that the group member believes that his outcomes will be improved when the task is in the state designated by the goal.
