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Chapter 10 (Vocabulary (Conflict stage: When group members openly defend…
Chapter 10
Vocabulary
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Orientation stage: When group members become familiar with one another's positions and tentatively volunteer their own
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Cohesiveness: The totality of forces that causes members to feel themselves part of a group and makes them want to remain in that group
Dialogue: A process in which people let go of the notion that their ideas are more correct or superior to others and instead seek to understand an issue from many different perspectives
Participative decision making: A process in which people contribute to the decisions that will affect them
Force field analysis: A method of problem analysis that identifies the forces contributing to resolution of the problem and the forces that inhibit its resolution
Information underload: The decline in efficiency that occurs when there is a shortage of the information necessary to operate effectively
Brainstorming: A method for creatively generating ideas in groups by minimizing criticism and encouraging a large quantity of ideas without regard to their workability or ownership by individual members
Information overload: the decline in efficiency that occurs when the rate or complexity of material is too great to manage
Nominal group technique: A method for including the ideas of all group members in a problem solving session
Groupthink: A group's collective striving for unanimity that discourages realistic appraisals of alternatives to its chosen decision
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Examples in the book
Diversity: In teams that consist of both Asian born and American born members , Americans do most o f the talking and are more likely than their asian teammates to interrupt
Some jobs require a lot of time and energy: Planning a new year's party can require a lot of planning, for example who to invite, food and drinks
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Having more solutions or problems: Phoning merchants to get price quotes and looking up a series of books in the library don't require much creative thinking.
Focusing on shared goals: Members of a conversation group might have little in common until a part of the countryside they all value is threatened by development
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Real Life Examples
Dialogue: In my family group, my dad always try to communicate and create dialogue in order to listen and find solutions.
Problem solving in virtual groups: At my school I have worked at projects in my astronomy class in order to assist astronomers find more exoplanets. I've never met them but I know it's for a good cause.
Information overload: At work there is an overload of information, for example people's orders, the menu, people's names, it gets too hectic, I try to organize and prioritize in order to juggle multiple things
Breakout group: This happens quite frequently in my classroom where we will be in smaller groups and discuss a topic and come together as a class to discuss further
Pressure to conform: Working in a new place, I feel a certain pressure to conform to what my coworkers are doing and how they do certain things