Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 7, Issue 4, DIP: 18.01.033/20190704 DOI: 10.25215/0704.033 http://www.ijip.in | October- December, 2019 © 2019, D Widiantoro & I Herawati; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A descriptive study on the group cohesiveness of employee at Islamic University of Riau Didik Widiantoro 1 *, Icha Herawati 2 ABSTRACT Researchers have the aim to see and illustrate the cohesiveness of employee groups at Islamic University of Riau. The type of this study uses a purely descriptive study with information on the data obtained directly from participants using interviews. In this study discusses aspects of group cohesiveness taken from Forsyth namely Social Strength, Unity in Groups, Attractiveness and Collaboration in Groups. The data collection method uses observation and interview techniques. Data processing from this study uses qualitative analysis (descriptive). Descriptive qualitative analysis is a method of examining the status of a group of people, an object, a set of conditions, a system of thought or a flash of events in the present. The aim is to make a systematic, factual and accurate descriptive picture or painting of the facts, nature and relationships between the phenomena investigated. The subjects of this study were 3 employees at Islamic University of Riau. The results of this study obtained a high level of social strength that employees have made motivation to always work in groups. The same thing is found in the aspects of unity in the group and the attraction they have, the high sense of unity causes a strong attraction for one another in completing each task in the employee group team. And in the end the aspect of group collaboration arises by itself in each individual. Keywords: Group Cohesiveness, Social Strength, Unity in Groups, Attractiveness and Collaboration in Groups. Human resources who have just entered the world of industry or companies need knowledge and special abilities in carrying out certain jobs in a company. Therefore, the ability of the organization's human resources must always be improved in line with the organization's progress and development. In improving this, one of the ways to do this is by providing training and development for these human resources. Cohesive groups are groups that have unity. Each member has similarities and interactions to last a long time. Group cohesiveness is a description of the extent to which each group member is attracted to one another. As well as being part of the group, the high cohesiveness of the group members has good leadership in maintaining the group. 1 Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Islam Riau, Indonesia 2 Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Islam Riau, Indonesia *Responding Author Received: October 5, 2019; Revision Received: December 6, 2019; Accepted: December 25, 2019