Chapter 1
Communication can break down
What is a communication myth?
A chain reaction, spreads across the entire system.
What is the Ripple Effect?
Focuses on the work performed by a group.
What is the Task Dimension?
The relative importance, prestige, or power accorded each group role.
What us Role Status?
Class Group Project Focus
Why PPSC?
Sharing meaning with other without using words
`What is non-verbal communication?
Occurs when group performance from joint action of members exceeds expectations based on perceived abilities and skills of individual group members.
What is Synergy?
Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
What are the 4 phased of Group Development?
Playing roles in groups the contradict each other.
What is Role Conflict?
Communication between only two individuals.
What is Interpersonal Communication?
The ability to perform a communication behavior effectively and repeatedly.
The adjustment of group boundaries in response to changing Enviromental conditions.
What is Adaptability to change?
The tendency of a group member to exert less effort on a task when working in a group than when working individually.
What is Social Loafing?
Focuses on the social dimension of the group.
What are Maintenance Roles?
Determines the amount of access to input a group has.
What is Boundary Control?
Engaging in communication behavior with others that is both effective and appropriate in a given context.
What is Communication Competence?
Disruptive members who poison the group
What are "Bad Apples"?
The stress and strain that occur when within the group later in its development.
What is Secondary Tension?
Serve individual needs while impeding attainment of group goals.
What are Disruptive Roles?
Explicit and Implicit
What are types of Group Norms?
Human communication system composed of three or more individuals, interacting in a quest to achieve some common goals.
What is a group?
Fluctuation in this has enormous influence on the structure and functions of a group.
What are group size?
May result in increased difficulty achieving agreement because of strong cultural value differences.
What Group Diversity?
The communication process in which new and established group members adjust to one another.
What is Group Socialization?
The capcity to recognize the current requirements of the group and then enact the role-specific behaviors more approrpite in the given context.
What is Role Flexibility?