Tuckman's Stages Of The Group Process

The purpose of this proposal is to research why members, who find themselves in a group that has elements of both a friendship and task group, continue their membership after conflict or cognitive dissonance. That is to say, why members stay involved after expressing frustration and disagreement over decisions that are made. This research proposal is designed to identify the key factors of why members, who represent their group culture, find it easy to complain about the balance of power in their organization. The following proposal will outline a comprehensive strategy to study and analyze the data.
Group Process The main group process that will be studied is the Storming Process, from Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development. According to

That could be in the form of gossip, cognitive dissonance, complaining, or questioning authority, and it causes the group to become ineffective. From the perspective of the leadership, their members are no longer cohesive and fail to be a part of that collective. I want to examine what causes members to identify those feelings of disagreement. Essentially, how does a member stop feeling a part of the group culture. Within groups, there are prescriptive and proscriptive norms. Within a collectivist group, those norms need to be followed, or else conflict will arise. When individuals join friendship-task groups that are collectivist, they join a group of values and a culture knowingly. Yet, members can be eager to create disruption within this collectivist group. One would expect those conflicting members to leave the group and allow it to leave the storming phase and continue functioning. However, members, who participate in this conflict, often remain a member of the collectivist group and follow their set values. I want to examine why members, from collectivist groups, start the storming phase and stay in a group that they disagree with. Furthermore, I would like identifying how the groups reconcile the differences and resolving the conflict to enter into the norming

Fraternities and Sororities are primary intimate task groups. They provide cohesion and group identity; have high levels of interaction and they value their membership; and they create goals in philanthropy, scholarship, involvement, and recruitment. In the 2014-2015 National PanHellenic Conference Annual report stated that there were 380,565 undergraduate members of NPC sororities (NPC, 2015.) In the same year, 380,487 undergraduate men were members of fraternities (North-American Interfraternity Conference, 2015). That is a large number of individuals who are a part of a collectivist primary intimate task group. Most of those members will enter into the job market and join various groups. This research would identify key factors as to why members not only find conflict within their fraternity or sorority, but also how they collectively find a solution and continue into the norming phase. That data could then be used to predict how that segment of the population will problem solve when their task groups hit the storming phase. Hopefully, the data would break stereotypes that fraternities and sororities are hierarchical and all conforming. While fraternities and sororities are groups that expect their members to uphold their fraternal values, collectivist group, they still value the opinion of each