04:192:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Groupthink, Cooperativeness, Assertiveness
3 Apr 2016
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Addiional members working on aciviies, working on decision-making, more resources for problem solving. Efort to develop consensus and goals, to keep members informed, to counteract pressure to conform, leadership required. Assembly line group (each member has a diferent task. Ex; one must ind a place to plant a tree, one must ind water, one must get trees: duplicated acivity group (each member has the same task. Judgmental problem: solving and decision-making group (members-collecive planning. Regardless of the type, groups should balance both producivity and morale. Most groups serve combinaion of task, personal, and social goals. Emergent (more people join the group without noice) Group communicaion networks: many interpersonal linkages in groups, requiring a lot of communicaion, emergent groups develop natural networks, networks. Circle (each group member interacing with two other people) Wheel (messages lows through the coordinator of the project) Chain (one person communicates with people that have the next role of the project. )
