COMM 1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Double Negative (Vfx), Group Development, Cover Letter
16 Dec 2017
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Types of Groups!
•Formal !
-Task oriented !
•Advisory !
-Evaluative !
•Creative!
-Ideas/products!
-Brain storming groups!
•Support!
-Comforting, sharing knowledge, raising awareness!
-AA !
•Networking!
-Building relationships !
-Is this working?!
•Cohesiveness/group synergy (good) vs group think (bad)!
•Which is occurring in your group?!
Characteristics of small groups !
•Interdependence!
•Norms!
-More informal group, the more normal they may have !
•Rules!
-More formal group, the more written rules they may have!
•Culture!
•Consensus!
-Leader of the group (informal groups can be tricky achieve - general agreement
or not)!
•Hidden Agendas !
-Test: take a look at in-groups and out groups !
Roles!
•Formal Roles!
-Titles (president, treasurer) !
-Tasks with completing are very laid out !
•Informal Roles!
-Person can put themselves as the social role (jokester)!
•Task Roles!
-Can be informal or formal !
-Formal: designed to keep the meeting on track !
•Social Roles!
-In group, 1 or 2 people may just want to sit there and not talk !
•Disruptive Roles !
-Sometimes can be helpful not always bad !
-Comic relief !
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Document Summary
More informal group, the more normal they may have: rules. More formal group, the more written rules they may have: culture, consensus. Leader of the group (informal groups can be tricky achieve - general agreement or not: hidden agendas. Test: take a look at in-groups and out groups. Tasks with completing are very laid out: informal roles. Person can put themselves as the social role (jokester: task roles. Formal: designed to keep the meeting on track: social roles. In group, 1 or 2 people may just want to sit there and not talk: disruptive roles. Sometimes can be helpful not always bad. Group development and decision making: tuckman"s 5 stages of group development (be able to identify - the names) Forming: when a group rst comes together. Stroming: when people start tting into x roles. Norming: group establishes a way of going about it to come up with a solution. Fisher"s model of group progression pg 174: orientation.
