Communicating in Groups: Applications and Skills, 7/e
Katherine L. Adams,
CALIF STATE U-FRESNO Gloria J. Galanes,
MISSOURI STATE UNIV
ISBN: 007338500x Copyright year: 2009
New to this Edition
Stronger integration of text material and tables: Table 4.3 about how to act nonverbal to get others to like you; table summarizing stages of group socialization (Ch. 5): table on criteria to judge internet sites (Ch. 7).
Authors have updated the examples and information (such as including information about Bona Fide Group Perspective) and used more compelling stories, such as the opening story (Best Friends Animal Society) in Chapter 1.
Discussion on group development, (Ch. 5) Becoming a Group and diversity (Ch. 6) Working with Diversity in the Small Group now appear earlier in the text in a new section, Part III: Individuals to Group.
The materials on groupthink have been moved into Chapter 5 (Becoming A Group) and Chapter 7 (Creative and Critical Thinking), so that groupthink can be covered in relation to cohensiveness and critical thinking where it more directly links to tips in the chapter.
Content is linked to material students may already be familiar with, such as Tuckman’s model of group development (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning) and system theory concepts.
The diversity chapter (6) has been renamed to capture the theme that diversity should be worked with and used effectively rather than simply “celebrated.”
Familiar concepts are incorporated into discussion of system theory and leadership styles.
The discussion of ethics, which appears in several chapters relevant to different aspects of small group communication, is linked explicitly to the National Communication Association’s Credo of Ethics.
Every chapter touches on group ethics as it is related to the National Communication Association Credo of Ethical Communication.
Sections of chapters have been retitled to improve continuity, for example, a clearer discussion of problem solving is provided in Ch. 8, Group Problem-Solving Procedures, new subheads were created for the description of communication principles in Ch. 3., and each of the Myers Briggs sections in Ch. 6 have been rewritten to reduce duplication.
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