Chapter 7 revisited

Chapter 7 revisited
Defining a Group:
-Common purpose
-Types: formal, advisory, creative, support, networking
-Stages of development: forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning
-Progression: orientation, conflict, emergence, reinforcement
-Communicatively constructed: groups are built on the relationships and communication between members
-Features: interdependence (reliance on eachother), commitment (shared common goals and pursuit), cohesion (teamwork- working in unison and shared understanding), expectations (particular behavior assumed)
-Group norms: status relationships, values, and sanctions
-Norms: negative: using negativity for larger purpose, enforcing: sanctions or punishments
-Member roles: titles and purposes/ Informal roles: patterns of behavior
-Roles and traits: personal traits determine optimal roles
-Group culture: how we talk to one another
-Leadership styles: task focused, socioemotional: well being of group and members
-Types of Leadership power: formal (systematic)/ informal (liking based and relationship based)
More types: legitimate-rank, status, expert- specialized knowledge, referent- allegiance to a group (celebrity), reward- benefit driven, coercive- power to punish
-Leadership transacted: interpersonal process
-Communication: promotive (toward solution), disruptive (away from solution), counteractive (back on track)
-Group decisions: history (common origin/ collectivity), culture( relationship between group members), future (sense of future connections), norms (ways of behaving to set a standard), cohesiveness (how members treat each other and regard the group), conformity (going along when you disagree), groupthink (want consensus – conformity)
-Group decisions: Making and Persuasion, Influences