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22 Cards in this Set
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What are Tuckerman's Classic model stages?
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Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjouring
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Forming
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Avoids conflict and controversy as it deals with initial tensions that rise.
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Storming
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Stage where individuals argue or defend their point of view on important issues.
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Norming
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Stage where groups have worked through most of their differences and gives rules on how they will continue to work together. Members are recognized for their abilities and skills.
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Performing
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Stage where members work together as a group. they show high identification with the group. Not every group reaches this stage.
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Adjouring
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Stage where group essentially completes its task and is ready to move on to another task.
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What are the 4 characteristics of small groups?
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Interdependence, Commitment, Cohesiveness, Gender Make-up.
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Interdependence
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Mutual dependence of group members on another.
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Commitment
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The desire of group members to work together to complete a task to the satisfaction of the entire group.
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Cohesiveness
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Refers to the attraction that group members feel for each other and their willingness to stick together; a form of loyalty.
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Gender Make-Up
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Ration of males and females.
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Group think
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A dysfunction in which group members see the harmony of the group as more important than considering new ideas, critically examining their own assumptions, changing their own flawed decisions, or allowing new members to participate.
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What are the symptoms to group think?
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Over estimating of the group's power and morality.
Closed-mindedness Pressure toward failure |
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What are the disadvantages to small groups?
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Can limit the information and ideas generated.
Too much cohesiveness can lead to conformity and blind loyalty to a group. Group think. Time-consuming Nature of Group Work. Varying Interaction- can't contribute equally. Unfair Workloads. Pressure to Fail Grouphate Phenomenon- neg. past experience. |
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What is leadership?
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An influence process that includes any behavior that helps clarify a groups purpose or guides that group to achieve its goals.
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What are the three kinds of leadership distribution?
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Autocratic leader.
Democratic leader. Laissez-faire leader. |
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Autocratic leader
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A leader who has control and makes decisions with little or no consultation with others.
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Democratic leader
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A leader who shares control and makes decisions in consultation with others.
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Laissez-faire leader
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A leader who gives up control, is passive, and usually requires that others take over if the group is to succeed.
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What are the Group Roles?
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Group task roles- help group accomplish task or objective.
Group building and maintenance roles- helps define a groups social atmosphere. Self-controlled roles- counter productive or destructive, ruins and breaks up a group. |
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What are the Group Member Roles?
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encourages, harmonizers, compromisers, gatekeepers, standard setters, followers, and feeling expressers.
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What are the Self-Centered Roles?
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aggressors, blockers, recognition seekers, buffoons, dominators, help seekers, withdrawers.
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