Stages of Group Development Flashcards

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Positional vs. Personal Power

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Positional = Formal & External Power (Extrinsic)

Personal = Informal & Internal Power (Intrinsic)

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Formal leaders have _______ power.

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Positional (External) Power

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3
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Informal leaders have ______ power.

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Personal & (; Internal )Power

Examples of informal power: Role model, Subject matter expert etc….

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4
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Positional Power Sources

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Reward, Coercive, and Legitimate

Pneumonic: CLR like the bathroom cleaner

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Personal Power Sources

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Connection, Information, Referent, and Expert

Referent - Complies because they admire or id with leader

Pneumonic: RICE

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6
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6 Roles and Functions of a group

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  1. Clarifier
  2. Comic
  3. Deviant
  4. Devil’s Advocate
  5. Expert
  6. Mediator

Think about 12 angry men

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7
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3 Types of group process behavior**

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Task, Maintenance, and Personal

Task - Directed towards helping group select define, and solve problems

Maintenance - Helping group function as a cohesive unit

Personal - No regard for group as a whole

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Group Think Vs. Synergy

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Group Think - Desires cohesiveness and will make decisions based on majority

Synergy - From the Greek word Synergos meaning “working together. whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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9
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Project length affects desirable characteristics of group behavior.

Short Projects Require _____ and Long Projects require ______.

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Short projects require “Task “oriented behavior.

and Long term projects require “maintenance” oriented behavior.

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10
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List the 5 stages of group Development

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  1. Forming
  2. Storming
  3. Norming
  4. Performing
  5. Transforming

*Transforming - group meets obligations, lessons learned,

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