Comparative Analysis of Social Cohesion and Task Cohesion in the Context of Tunisian Professional Football
Résumé
The purpose of this research is to provide some answers to this fundamental question : What is the most relevant dimension of cohesion ; Is the social or the operative for the success of a professional football team ? And analyze the four factors of cohesion; individual social and task attraction and social and task integration within a group. Our method is purely quantitative, it is through the use of questionnaire (group environment questionnaire) Carron et al (1985) (1) and its translations ; French, Heuzé and Fontayne (2002) (2) and Arabic, Boughattas and Kridis (2016) (3). Our results show that the success of the team is based on two dimensions of cohesion. In addition, according to our analysis we can say that the task cohesion to more important averages than the social performance of the teams while the social ranks on the operating side of the teams less efficient. In conclusion, the success of a team is based on several intertwined factors whose cohesion mediates all these factors.