Group dynamics effectiveness among the women self help group members of new alluvial zone of West Bengal, India

Group dynamics is the internal nature of the group as to how they are formed, what their structure and process are, how they function and affect individual members, group and the other organization. The present study was designed in purposively selected district of Nadia, West Bengal, India to understand the group dynamics among the Self Help Group members. A sample of200 Self Help Group members were randomly selected from 20 credit linked SHGs of the district. Majority of the Self Help Group members were in medium category of group dynamics effectiveness. Personal characteristics like extension contact, age of the Self Help Group members, cosmopoliteness-localiteness, number of training attended and economic motivation were important to predict group dynamics effectiveness among the Self Help Group members.