[COMM 222] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 30 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Group: two or more people working together to achieve a common goal. Formal: established by organizations to help achieve org. goal: task forces, committees, project teams. Informal: emerge naturally common interest of members: can help or hurt an organization, rarely sanctioned by company. Stages of group development: applies to new groups, older groups can skip beginning stages. Forming: ambiguous situation, getting to know each other. Perform: devote energy to task accomplishment, mutual assitance. Adjourn: group disbands corporate layoffs: ritual for success: party, gathering. Punctuated equilibrium model: how group deadlines are affected by 1st meetings and crucial midpoint transitions: phase 1, midpoint, phase 2, 1st meeting is critical for phase 1, conclude phase 2 with final meeting, burst of energy. Additive: group performance sum of individual members" performance. Disjunctive: group performance: performance of best member. Conjunctive: group performance is limited by performance of poorest member. Process losses: group performance difficulty: hard to motivate and coordinate large group.
