The importance of role distribution in working groups : an evaluation of two different groups working in the same environment based on self-evaluation and observer-reported data by the use of SPGR-Systematizing the Person Group Relation

ABSTRACT The present thesis examines personal and group relations. Two groups served as the study context: one group of doctors and one group of nurses. SPGR – Systematizing the Person Group Relation – was used as a framework. SPGR is a theory on how behaviour and relations develop in groups and organizations. The purpose of the study was to investigate typical tendencies in groups to identify the prevailing functions based on the formative SPGR dimensions Nurture, Dependency, Control and Opposition. Group sessions were held on two occasions, with both sessions being videotaped. The results were based on both self-reporting data and observer-reported data. The findings were that the nurses tended to be more caring than the doctors, in addition to the nurses having a more even role distribution than the doctors. The doctors tended to have a more distinct hierarchy in the group than the nurses. The findings in this thesis support existing theories