Real Communication An Introduction

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 285 about the new deadline”), whereas those from a low-context culture woul ...

286 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication Groupthink The Challenger disaster is often pointed to as a classic example o ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 287 One important way to prevent groupthink is to encourage dissent among m ...

288 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication Social Forces Social forces are group standards for behavior that influence d ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 289 often enough by city sanitation workers, causing trash overflow to be b ...

290 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication Evaluating and Choosing Solutions Once EcoCrew has generated its list of poss ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 291 By revisiting these criteria, the group is able to tweak its plan for t ...

292 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication changed meetings—and how it hasn’t. Most important, we’ll show that effective ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 293 An agenda for a meeting should detail the meeting’s subject, goal, logi ...

294 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication Arrive Prepared When running a meeting, it’s crucial that the leader has done ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 295 The other advantage of productive conflict is that the group members wh ...

296 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication For this reason, making decisions by consensus—group solidarity in senti- men ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 297 But is there a difference between face-to-face meetings and virtual mee ...

298 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication THINK ABOUT whether each group member’s exper- tise is necessary to achieve a ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 299 If the task does require contributions from all members, how well is th ...

300 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication Individual Performance One of the most important assessments you can make is ...

Chapter 10  Leadership and Decision Making in Groups 301 THINGS TO TRY Video clips that illustrate key concepts, highlighted in ...

302 Part 3  Group and Organizational Communication Create a chart that lists the four leadership styles described in this chapt ...

303 A Study Tool Now that you have finished reading this chapter, you can: Describe the types of power that leaders employ: c Le ...

Though Zappos has nearly 15,000 employees, it’s managed to keep its warm, welcoming culture with core values like “Create Fun an ...