Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

1.

Name and explain five motivations for belonging to groups; then specify how knowledge of these five motivations might be useful to a group leader.

2.

Recall and explain Bales's, Fisher's, Poole's, and Gersick's explanations of group development.

3.

Describe how knowledge of Bales's, Fisher's, Poole's, and Gersick's developmental explanations may be useful in encouraging a group's development.

4.

Identify, define, compare, and contrast the two types of social tension-primary tension and secondary tension; then explain how knowledge of social tension theory may be useful to an individual group member or leader.

5.

Describe Scheidel and Crowell's notion of idea development in a problem-solving group, naming each stage in the process and explaining the communication behavior found in each stage.

6.

Specify how knowledge of the spiral model of idea development may be useful to a group member or leader who wishes to encourage group development.

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