Introduction to Group Communication and Open Educational Resources

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What Is Communication?

The message is the stimulus or meaning produced by the source for the receiver or audience.” McLean, S. Interference is anything that blocks or changes the source’s intended meaning of the message.” McLean, S.

Communication in Context

In public communication, one person speaks to a group of people; the same is true of public written communication, where one person writes a message to be read by a small or large group. The boss may say, as part of a charged-up motivational speech, “Do you hear me?” and the sales team is expected to call back “Yes Sir!” The boss, as a public speaker, recognizes that intrapersonal communication (thoughts of the individual members) or interpersonal communication (communication between team members) may interfere with this classic public speaking dynamic of all to one, or the audience devoting all its attention to the speaker, and incorporate attention-getting and engagement strategies to keep the sales team focused on the message.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Working in Groups

What’s in it for you in terms of relationships, then, if you work in a group instead of alone. Identify two examples of your personal or vocational growth which you feel you owe to participation in a group.

Group Communication and Social Media

Social media permit people to keep in contact with each other when they’re not meeting formally. Responses to asynchronous messages transmitted via social media may not arrive in a timely fashion, however.

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

Group Communication Theory

Chapter Introduction
What Is a Group?
Group Life Cycles and Member Roles
Why Communicate in Groups?
What Is a Theory?
Group Communication Theory
Additional Resources

It is generally wiser to focus on the performance of the group rather than individual contributions. Your self-esteem (level four) improved as you perceived that you belonged as part of the group.

Group Development

Group Life Cycles
The Life Cycle of Member Roles
Why People Join Groups
Social Penetration Theory
Group Norms
Summary

Some members of the group may be senior to the organization in comparison to you, and members may treat them differently. Who will take the lead on these areas of the group’s behavior has to be determined.

Group Membership

Introducing Member Roles
Norms among Group Members
Status
Trust
Membership in Digital Groups
Summary

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Intercultural and International Group Communication

Intercultural Communication
How to Understand Intercultural Communication
Common Cultural Characteristics
Divergent Cultural Characteristics
International Communication and the Global Marketplace
Styles of Management
The International Assignment
Summary

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Improving Verbal and Nonverbal Group Interactions

Principles of Verbal Communication
Language Can Be an Obstacle to Communication
Improving Verbal Communication
Summary

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Listening in Groups

Listening to Understand
Types of Listening
Group Members and Listening
Strategies to Improve Listening in Groups
Summary

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Group Leadership

What is Leadership?
Becoming a Leader
Teamwork and Leadership
Diverse Forms of Leadership
Summary

Again, assessing a context can be a challenging task but they indicate the focus should be on the maturity of the group members. Now it is our task to match the style or leadership strategy to the maturity level of the group members as shown in Table 8.2. As we can see in Table 8.3, the functional leader focuses on the short and long term needs of the group.

Based on the leader’s assessment of the needs, they will select the appropriate action and maintain a priority order. We can recognize some of the behaviors of coaches, but what specific traits have a positive influence on the group. This page titled 8.5: Diverse Forms of Leadership is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Anonymous via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request.

Group Motivation

Group Motivation and Collaboration
Role of Motivation
Effective Motivation Strategies
Effective Collaboration Strategies

What’s the most challenging goal that a group you were part of ever set for itself. I’m going to retire in two weeks to Wyoming,” he continues, where “the only horns are on the cattle and the only winds are in the trees.”. Several content theories of motivation were developed in the middle to late years of the 20 century.

A final content theory of motivation was put forth by Steven ReissReiss, S. The 16 basic desires that motivate our behavior and define our personality. In the next section, we’ll take a look at ways to both produce motivation and ensure that people take action based on it. In the last section, we discussed ways to motivate individuals to act in certain ways.