Tuckman's Stages Of Group Interaction

Tuckman’s theory describes the fifth stage of a group development. In 1977 Dr Tuckman study the behaviour of small groups in different environments and he notes that groups go through five different stages in order to achieve the highest effectiveness. (Martin et al., 2006)
Forming
This is the first stage when group member has their first contact as group is an introductory stage, where people want to be accepted by the other member of the group and they try to keep away from any conflict by being polite and positive. At this stage most of the team members are exciting and anxious as they don’t know the purpose of the group. This stage can last for long period of time (Martin et al., 2006).
Storming
This is the second stage where group member start to feeling part of the group but they also start to have conflict with each other. Group members may have conflict between them as each member has his own style of working or they may have conflict flowing authority figures. This conflict will help the group growth as they would be able to express they frustration. Although in this stage some member of the group finds themselves uncomfortable with the situation so they decide to leave the group. During this stage is normal to see the team split in two groups, one that not support the leader while other support it. (Balzac, 2014).
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The effectiveness of the group starts to arise as they are more capable to communicate each other and more open to bring they help to others team members. During this stage they commitment to work within the team goals is strong and the group stablish a clear structure in the