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Nature of Group Task
(3) While catering to the requirements of the job the testing procedure must
be fair to the assessee insofar as it provides him with sufficient opportunity to
show his best in the time available. To do this, groups and its members are
subjected to a number of situations based on free for all leaderless group tasks in
which the individuals are free to choose their own behaviour roles, lay down their
own priorities for action and engage themselves in collective group activity,
influencing each other and bringing about modifications in their own behaviour
and in the behaviour of other individuals. The assessment is based on Overall
Integrated Activity rather than on the basis of addition of scores of specified test
situations. Hence these are called Tasks and not tests. These tasks are designed to
reproduce the conditions under which the individual will eventually perform. All
these tasks are subject to rules and each task has a laid down time frame.
Three Phases of Group Testing
(4) This is based on the theory expounded by GESTAULT which is a relationship of the whole to
the parts and the parts to the whole.
The relationship can be classified as follows :
1 2 3

Integration Differentiation Re-Integration
Stage Stage. Stage.

(5) The method followed in the Group Testing Technique is to (1) understand the group of
individuals and their intra-relationship (2) observe each individual separately and check and re-check
particular findings; confirm or rebut these and to resolve doubts specially in borderline cases. For this
purpose the group situational tasks are divided into three series. They are—(1) The Basic Series, (2)
The Confirmatory Series, and (3) Final Series.
(6) Basic Series (Integration Stage)—
The tasks in the Basic Series are
a b

Group Discussion Group Planning
Exercise, and
c d

Progressive Group G.O.R. Group Obstacle
Task Race
(7) The Basic Series enables the GTO to get a general view of the group effectiveness of the
candidates in a leaderless group. In the tasks of Basic Series, therefore, a GTO’s observations is
focussed mainly on roles like communicating, Planning, Organising, Practical Execution, Persuading
others to one’s own line of thinking, adaptability to people and situations, particularly difficult people
and situations creating stress.
(8) The tasks in this series are designed and conduced in a definite order to be administered without
long breaks, to promote a smooth development of the group in accordance with the principles. The