Communicating in Groups: Building Relationships for Group Effectiveness: Building Relationships for Effective Decision Making Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Communicating in Groups: Building Relationships for Group Effectiveness: Building Relationships for Effective Decision Making Book

Communicating in Groups : Paperback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195183436 : 0195183436 : 11 Dec 2005 : Useful for Group Communications courses found in nearly all 4-year colleges and universities, this text addresses how the decision-making aspect of group communication is narrow and privileges business groups over all other type of groups. It emphasises on the relational aspects of group communication, examining a variety of group situations.Read More

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    To communicate effectively within groups and teams, we must understand our relationships with other members and how those relationships influence the tasks and activities that the groups and teams undertake. Communicating in Groups, Third Edition, emphasizes that all groups--decision-making and social--require members to successfully convey both relational and task messages. Author Joann Keyton points to the five key elements that define a group--size, interdependence, identity, goal, and structures--and demonstrates how group processes are facilitated or hindered by them. Using examples from field research on both task and social groups, Keyton depicts group interaction as it emerges through conversation. She provides frameworks for analyzing group interaction, recommendations for effective group practice, and numerous transcripts of authentic group communication that help to underscore the concepts. Thoroughly revised in this third edition, the book features new material on communication structures, group tasks and activities, communication competence, and decision making. Keyton includes updated literature reflecting recent communication and interdisciplinary group theory and research, and she also places more emphasis on gender and cultural diversity, stressing the need for students to consider the multiple ways in which diversity influences group interaction. Highlighting the important connection between task and relational messages in both task and social groups, Communicating in Groups, Third Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courses in group and team communication, as well as for management and business communication courses in group behavior and teamwork.

  • 0195183436
  • 9780195183436
  • Joann Keyton
  • 27 October 2005
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 360
  • 3
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