Key Terms
A group’s collective striving for unanimity that discourages realistic appraisals of alternatives to its chosen decision.
Group think.
What role does the information giver have?
Offers facts that may relate to the group’s task.
If a problem has a clear, answer or can be solved by a single person, doing what is usually a waste of time and energy.
Forming a group.
An individual agenda that group members are unwilling to reveal.
Hidden Agenda.
What role does the coordinator have?
Clarifies the relationships among information.
The textbook recommends using a group when a task is open to multiple interpretations and does not have a single, obvious what?
Solution.
Individual goals that involve affiliation, influence, and esteem of others.
Social orientation.
What role does the evaluator have?
Analyzes group’s accomplishments.
If the job is beyond the capacity of one person, or the tasks assigned to different individuals require them to depend heavily on one another, they are what?
Interdependent.