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Summary - Group Communication Theories
Group Communication Theories
© Brian Brown, 1998-1999. All rights reserved.
Last Modified: January 28, 2000.
| Intrapersonal | Interpersonal | Group | Organization | Mass/Cultural |
This is a summary of the information in
Littlejohn, Stephen. (1992). Theories of Human Communication (5th Ed.). California: Wadsworth Publishing.
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|General Organizing Model |General Functional Theory |GroupThink |
|Barry Collins and Harold Guetzkow |Randy Hirokawa |Irving Janis |
|Interaction Process Analysis |Interaction Analysis |Structuration Theory |
|Robert Bale |Aubrey Fisher |Anthony Giddens |
|Structurational Theory of Group Decision| | |
|Making | | |
|Scott Poole | | |

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[pic]GENERAL ORGANIZING MODEL
Barry Collins and Harold Guetzkow (pg. 282) • A task group is confronted with two types of problems o Task Obstacles - difficulties encounted by the group, such as planning an event or approving a policy o Interpersonal Obstacles - difficulties encountered between people, making ideas clear to others, handling conflict and differences • In any group discussion, members deal simultaneous with both task and interpersonal obstacles • Assembly effect is when task and interpersonal work is integrated effectively • Group rewards are positive (a successful event is a task reward, the fun involved in planning it the interpersonal reward) or negative (if
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