Impact of Group Cohesiveness on Performance of the Acadamicains in Chennai- An Emperical Study

The ages old expression that “birds of feather, flock together” describes
the concepts of cohesion. The primary objective is to study the impact of
group cohesiveness on performance of the academician’s in Chennai. In
this study the researcher has take up a descriptive research method. The
applied sampling procedure of the study is purposive sampling under
probability sampling technique. The determined sample sizes of 1020 are
equally distributed to all 102 colleges. Hence, the sample size from each
college came to 10 faculties. Hence the final sample included for the study
came to 918 respectively. The identified male and female respondents of the
present study came to 321 to 597 respectively. T-test, Reliability Test,
Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA),
Two Group Discriminate Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis and
Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) has adopted for analysis. The study
concluded that the level of performance in the group among the female
faculty members are higher than the male faculty members. . Hence, the
educational institutions should focus on the group organization, group
motivation and group activities to enhance the recital of their staffs.