Group communication pitfalls : overcoming barriers to an effective group experience / John O. Burtis, Paul D. Turman.

"Group Communication Pitfalls treats groups as useful tools humans have developed. This book teaches how to expect and detect pitfalls while using a group as a tool to solve problems. This orientation gives the reader the foundation for overcoming barriers to effective group experiences. Author...

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Main Authors: Burtis, John Orville (Author), Turman, Paul D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, [2006]
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505 0 0 |g Unit I.  |t We co-construct our groups by communicating --  |g 1.  |t Why study group communication pitfalls? --  |g 2.  |t How grouping and group direction help create effective group experiences --  |g Unit II.  |t We struggle to con-construct and frame our circumstances and processes --  |g 3.  |t Pitfalls in task and supragroup exigencies --  |g 4.  |t Personnel pitfalls --  |g 5.  |t Pitfalls in grouping techniques, tendencies, and process prizes --  |g 6.  |t Pitfalls in confusion, conformity, conflict, and group consciousness : grouping concomitants --  |g 7.  |t Pitfalls in vision and direction giving --  |g Unit III.  |t We co-construct our exigencies for grouping into our group outcomes --  |g 8.  |t (Un)intended group outcomes --  |g 9.  |t To group or not to group, that is the question --  |g 10.  |t Observing groups well. 
520 1 |a "Group Communication Pitfalls treats groups as useful tools humans have developed. This book teaches how to expect and detect pitfalls while using a group as a tool to solve problems. This orientation gives the reader the foundation for overcoming barriers to effective group experiences. Authors John O. Burtis and Paul D. Turman offer readers a map of the group pitfall terrain and demonstrate how people working well together can use the struggle against such pitfalls to improve their groups."--BOOK JACKET. 
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