Chapter 5 covers quite extensively three more of the internal influences in the
Tubbs Model of Small Group Interaction: status and power, leadership, and
group norms. This chapter examines the two types of status, ascribed and
attained, and the five types of power: reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and
expert. The chapter also discusses leadership and several different perspectives
on how a leader is developed. Three perspectives are the trait theory, the circumstances
theory, and the function theory. Leadership styles and situational
leadership are described. Followership styles are discussed briefly, because every
successful leader has followers. We then discuss conformity and the processes of
social influence. The last subject in Chapter 5 is group development.
