Group Bonding and Effectiveness: Cohesion’s Moderating Role and Leaders’ Relationship Mediating Role

Motti Klang; Gil Luria

doi:10.1177/1046496420977915

Group Bonding and Effectiveness: Cohesion’s Moderating Role and Leaders’ Relationship Mediating Role

Motti Klang, Gil Luria

Department of Human Services

University of Haifa

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Abstract

The role of group bonding (friendship ties among group members) and the relationships between group members and the formal leader in the prediction of effectiveness was studied. A theoretical mediated-moderation process model was tested. The model was examined through a longitudinal research with 91 natural groups, that included social network analysis to capture the relationship between group members and a leadership differentiation measure to revel their relationship with the leader. As hypothesized, group bonding predicted group effectiveness, group cohesion mediated only one dimension of group effectiveness, and leadership differentiation moderated this process.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	431-456
Number of pages	26
Journal	Small Group Research
Volume	52
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1046496420977915
State	Published - Aug 2021

Keywords

group bonding
group cohesion
group effectiveness
leadership differentiation

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Social Psychology
Applied Psychology

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