Human Behavior: Bruce Tuckman's Five-Stage Model

Human beings are organized in many different ways on planet earth. Humans function within organizations, or organized bodies of people, with a particular purpose. They come up with solutions and innovative ideas to help improve daily life. In order for us to function as organizations, many factors come into play. For instance, how to develop an organization, how they work, how individuals feel, how they solve conflicts, how they understand and come together to work as one whole organization. These are all important aspects that contribute to our working society.
In order for human organizations to function, we must first invest in human and social capital. Human capital is the potential a person can input in their organization with their …show more content…
Bruce Tuckman came up with a Five-Stage Model on how to develop a group efficiently. The people in the group must learn how to communicate amongst each other. To communicate properly, one must understand how the process of how commutation works. First there is a sender, messenger, and a receiver. Second, there is encoding the message, which is what needs to be addressed. Third, is selecting a medium, or in other words, how to present the message. Next is decoding and creating meaning to further understand the message. Last but not least is feedback, otherwise known as responding to the message. Communicating is one of the most important functions that humans possess because each organization has a goal they are striving to achieve, and everyone must be on the same page in order for them to obtain that …show more content…
It can lead to conflict, trust, creativity, innovation, failure, stress, job involvement, personal attitude and attribute. I believe this one of the most important aspects of how an organizations functions. An attitude is a feeling or opinion about people, places, objects, and range from positive to negative. There are three main components of attitudes, which are affective, cognitive, and behavioral. The affective component of an attitude contains feelings or emotions one has about a given object or situation. The cognitive component of an attitude reflects the beliefs or ideas one has about an object or situation. The behavioral component refers to how one intends or expects to act toward someone or something. Psychologist Ajzen and M. Fishbein help explain why someone’s attitudes and behavior could misalign. Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior suggests attitude toward the behavior, subject norm, and perceived behavioral control influence intention that turns into behavior. Other forms of attitudes are motivation, job involvement, withdrawal cognition, and perceived