Socio-psychological adaptation of workers and efficiency of small groups

Abstract

The article brings forward the results of the research of workers’ adaptation in small groups and informal subgroups. It examines the interrelationship between adaptation and the socio-psychological and subject and activity-based efficiency of groups and subgroups perceived by workers. We have surveyed 239 workers in 27 structural divisions with various profiles of activity. We have ascertained that workers included into informal subgroups have higher adaptation in their subgroups than in the group as a whole. At the group level adaptation has stronger positive correlation with the indices of the socio-psychological efficiency than with the indices of the subject and activity-based efficiency. The interrelationship between adaptation and the indices of the socio-psychological efficiency is higher at the level of small groups than at the level of informal subgroups.