The group and its purpose The alienation process

Abstract

This article discusses a specific process within work groups, whereby they begin to act rigidly, with little opportunity for creation, modification, or enrichment of their behavior, adhering to externally imposed patterns. These external elements are their own objects, that is, the subject matter they deal with. I will call this process the alienation of the group from its work object, and I will describe it as follows: -a shortening of the optimal distance between the group and its work object. -which leads to a decrease or loss of the group's reflective awareness -as well as a disturbance in the group's understanding of the group as the subject of its own group behavior -and which determines a curtailment of the degrees of freedom with which the group operates, with the consequent nationalization or rigidification of its vital dynamics.