Books : Working in Groups: Communication Principles and Strategies
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by: Isa Engleberg, Dianna Wynn
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.34
EAN: 9780618215546
ISBN: 0618215549
Label: Houghton Mifflin Company
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 433
Publication Date: 2002-08
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Sales Rank: 651384
Studio: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Product Description:
This introductory text for group communication courses presents both classic and current theories of small group communication, focusing on how groups work. The text offers practical information on small group communication skills with useful advice on how to work in groups. Instructors have praised the authors' attention to balancing theory and practice, and students appreciate the text's utility and academic focus.
- Chapter 11, Motivation and Groups, examines the differences between and the value of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and rewards, and also offers theories, methods, and tools to enhance member and group motivation.
- Virtual Groups boxes in every chapter address the reality that groups in the 21st century work increasingly in separate locations.
- The text's Model of Leadership Effectiveness applies and balances leadership theories with an emphasis on specific leader functions, strategies, and communication skills.
- A Diversity and Participation section added to Chapter 3 establishes a framework for understanding and applying communication theory, methods, and tools to diverse groups and examines cultural dimensions such as power distance, uncertainty, avoidance, individualism, collectivism, masculinity/femininity, long-term/short-term orientation, and high/low context communication.
- The Instructor's Resource Manual now includes new features, assignments, exercises, assessment tools, teaching tips, references and resources, test questions, and presentation software.
- The chapter on parliamentary procedure, now presented in a separate appendix, features revised Robert's Rules of Order.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Working in Groups
Great survey of theory and practice for classroom use or for learning to be a better group leader or member.
Rating:  - Group Communications
This book has so many ideas of how groups form, work, and grow. By this book, I became a successful leader in my school government. This book helped me know what to do, why people act certain ways, and how to have everyone be involved. I am keeping this book for the rest of my life to teach my children. Yes the book, like any other text book, can be boring but the information inside is priceless.
Rating: - OK but trendy and shallow
Good for a basic understanding and easy to read but tends to emphasize research and science less, and trendy, faddish aspecdts of group dynamics more. Still pretty well balanced overall though their choices in what to cover are sometimes odd, with important but not trendy issues dropped in favor of current fashion and popular jargon / instruments.
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