Individual and Group Behavior

Team work, certainly an important form of group activity, consists in action by each member of a group upon the same object and toward the same objective goal. Adequately conceived, the individual's behavior does not terminate in his muscular contractions but includes the objective results accomplished, which are determined by constraining factors in the environment as well as by the individual's muscular activity. The individual becomes adjusted to the objective situation and works toward an objective result, and the members of a team are adjusted to the same situation and work toward the same result. Thus the individual participates in group activity, as he also participates in other environmental happenings such as the motion of a swing. Instead of participationhe may offer resistance to environmental forces. Participation, then, is not forced on the individual but grows out of his fundamental objectivity of outlook and effort. The root of group activity is the individual's tendency to participate

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