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In Mixed Company Communicating In Small Groups And Teams 10th Edition J. Dan Rothwell - Solutions
In what ways might positive evaluation of others produce defensiveness?
When is controlling communication appropriate and when is it inappropriate?
What’s the difference between a shift response and a support response?
Are there instances when you should act as a model of cooperative behavior even though other group members will take advantage of you?
Is hypercompetitive communication ethical? Explain.
When is interrupting appropriate?
A Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts vehicle depicting family dysfunction. Focus on the abundance of defensive versus supportive communication patterns and competitive and noncompetitive listening examples.
A dysfunctional group of hopeful, unpublished writers attempts to remain unconditionally positive and supportive in their communication in the face of constant rejection. Not for everyone, but this movie has many amusing moments. Analyze the effects of unconditionally supportive communication and
Four lifelong friends rekindle their sisterhood when they travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival. Identify both supportive and defensive communication during this admittedly raunchy, but often hilarious comedy.
Yes, this film is about a chipper little bear happily settled with the Brown family in London, but it is an adorable, sweet movie, and a welcome respite from the cornucopia of explosive comic book sequels.Examine defensive and supportive communication patterns, especially the role of empathy in
Engrossing but lengthy film depicting George and Martha, a troubled couple, “entertaining” another couple in the wee hours of the morning. This film is loaded with examples of defensive communication.Identify as many examples as you can find.
Are some roles more prestigious than others?
When two roles conflict, which role is likely to prevail?
How is role reversal influential?
Are there some group roles that the competent communicator should avoid?
How do communication patterns differ among the three types of roles?
How do roles emerge in small groups?
What is role specialization and why is it important?
Why should group members exhibit role flexibility?
What are the disadvantages of role fixation?
What aspects contribute to or thwart acceptance of a newcomer into the group?
What responsibilities should newcomers and long-standing group members have to make the socialization process work?
Is hazing ever an acceptable initiation process for newcomers?
Are self-centered disruptive roles ever appropriate?
Have you ever experienced role reversal effects?
Mostly faithful dramatic recreation of the Stanford Prison Study. Analyze formal and informal roles played by all of the characters. Explore the impact of each role on their behavior. Would you have preferred to be a prisoner or a guard? Why?
Katniss and Peeta become targets of the Capitol following their victory in the 74th Hunger Games, which ignites rebellion. Identify and analyze informal role emergence and roles that each character plays as a new Hunger Games composed only of past winners is instituted. Is there role status? Role
Based on a true story, in 1968, four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls become a singing group called The Saffires, who entertained U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. Analyze role emergence and informal roles played by each of the women. Does role status emerge as an issue? How does the
Graphic, sometimes chilling depiction of the story of a rookie FBI agent teaming up with a local game tracker and the tribal police chief to solve the murder of an 18-year-old native American girl who froze to death in the wilds of Wind River Indian Reservation in remote Wyoming wilderness. What
What is meant by “leadership is a process not a person”?
What are the key differences between managing and leading a small group?
What role does communication play in leadership of small groups?
What should you avoid if you want to emerge as a leader of a group?
What are the most likely ways to emerge as a group leader?
Do Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Kim Jong-un qualify as leaders? Explain your answer.
Can you identify any narcissistic or pathological leaders in the United States? Note the difference between emerging as a leader and exhibiting effective leadership once instated in a leadership position.
If you worked in a culture that has difficulty accepting women as leaders, how should you address this issue?
Are there any instances in which being a servant leader might prove to be ineffective, even counterproductive for the group? Explain.
Winston Churchill’s rise to power as British prime minister during the early days of World War II is dramatized. Analyze the role implicit theories of leadership played in Churchill’s rise to power, his leadership style, his influence on his country’s citizens during a time of crisis, and his
Three friends decide to murder their horrible bosses. This is a very funny movie in a very dark way.Beware the vulgarity. Examine the depiction of horrible bosses from the perspective of psychopathic and narcissistic leaders.
A fairly bland, but still interesting, retelling of Steve Jobs’s ascension from being a college dropout to one of the most influential and recognizable entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Analyze Jobs’s leadership style. Consider all perspectives (traits, style, etc.). Examine how he gains
Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) faces a daunting task providing effective leadership for his crosscountry high school team. Examine leadership styles, servant leadership, and the importance of adapting leadership styles to specific situations.
This is a terrific sequel to the initial reboot of the Star Trek motion picture series. Analyze Captain Kirk’s(Chris Pine) leadership style. Does he adapt to the situation by changing his style to meet changing circumstances? Contrast Kirk’s leadership style with Spock’s style. Apply the
This is a depiction of a true story—the rise and fall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio).This movie is not for the faint at heart. There is very graphic sexual content and vulgarity. Is Belfort a psychopathic or narcissistic leader? Compare his positive traits with his negative
Why is the attitude of team members at least as important as their aptitude?
What is the ideal team member?
What kinds of goals work best to build a team?
How is a team identity developed?
Should team roles be chosen by team members?
Which style of leadership is usually most effective with teams? In all situations?
How does fear diminish teamwork and team effectiveness?
What are supportive rules and how should they be established in a team?
Can you think of any teams that don’t require clear, challenging goals, a team identity, and designated roles?
Can a team identity be established that doesn’t conform to the team leader’s preference?
How much say do you think a team member should have when roles are designated? Should this be the exclusive choice of the team leader?
Above-average depiction of a true story. Coach Don Haskins molded a winning basketball team at Texas Western University in the early 1960s, eventually fielding an all-black starting five against an all-white Kentucky team in the NCAA final when racial tensions were heightened nationally. Examine
Check out this teamwork analysis of the movie at https://www.careeraddict.com/what-guardians-of-thegalaxy-can-teach-us-about-teamwork. Do you agree with all of the analysis?
Inspiring account of Nelson Mandela’s quest to unify South Africa following the dismantling of apartheid by winning the 1995 World Rugby Cup. Examine the elements of team building and teamwork depicted in the film.
An all-female singing group, The Bellas, compete for campus fame and glory. Analyze elements of team composition, team identity, leadership, and team effectiveness.
A crew of four perform a daring, true-life, sea rescue off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952. Does the crew perform well as a team? Is leadership designated or emergent? Is leadership distributed across all crew members? Are roles designated?
What problems are created by information overload?
What ways do groups have of coping with information overload?
Why does confirmation bias lead to defective decision making/problem solving?
Why is dichotomous (either–or) thinking usually false?
What are the primary, general sources of collective, inferential errors?
Why are most correlations noncausal?
What are the negative consequences from group polarization?
What produces group polarization?
What causes groupthink?
Do groups have to display all the symptoms of groupthink to exhibit poor-quality decisions like those that accompany full-blown groupthink?
Why is information overload such a problem when we have labor-saving technologies such as personal computers to process huge quantities of data?
Why are collective inferential errors more likely when issues are emotionally charged?
If cohesiveness is a positive small group attribute, why can it lead to groupthink?
This is a fairly gripping dramatization of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig catastrophic explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Examine elements of groupthink. Any other causes of poor decision making?
This is a documentary on the U.S. entry into the Iraq war and its ensuing difficulties. Examine this film’s depiction of the war for illustrations of confirmation bias, inferential error, and groupthink.
Semi-accurate depiction of the harrowing 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Kennedy administration avoided the groupthink mistakes that it made during the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Examine what prevented groupthink during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Identify any uncritical inferences made by various
Either version of this taut drama that depicts a jury locked in animated argument because one juror votes“not guilty” in a capital murder case is wonderful entertainment. There are uncritical inferences aplenty.See if you can find them all. Any confirmation bias? False dichotomies?
How are the Standard Agenda and the functional perspective related?
What constitutes a true consensus?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of various decision-making rules?
Should nonminority Americans value silence as much as some cultures do?
Should you expect some group members to become more assertive and outspoken participators in small groups, even though this is not highly valued in their culture?
Is parliamentary procedure always a useful way to conduct group meetings?
What are the main benefits of group meetings?
What are the principal drawbacks of group meetings?
What are the meeting responsibilities of both chairs and group members?
How do imagination and knowledge relate to creative problem solving?
Is brainstorming a more effective creative process than nominal group technique?
What is reframing, and how does it work to produce creative ideas?
Why is majority rule so popular when consensus decision making, by comparison, is often more advantageous?
Since a true consensus requires agreement, commitment, and satisfaction of group members, do you think groups are likely to achieve a true consensus?
What are some drawbacks to the Standard Agenda approach to decision making?
This dramatization of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 space mission to the moon illustrates creative problem solving. What creative problem-solving techniques are exhibited?
The original 1966 version of this taut drama about a plane crash and efforts of survivors to literally rebuild their damaged plane into a smaller flying machine to escape their plight in the desert is probably superior to the remake. In either case, examine the creative group problem solving
Matt Damon plays the central character, an astronaut stranded on Mars and later rescued, to perfection.Identify the multitude of examples of creative problem solving depicted. What creative process does the technical group on the ground use to help solve the many problems?
What does it mean to say that power is relational?
How do the primary forms of power differ from each other?
“Those who define others exercise control.” What does this mean?
Do male and female communication patterns differ regarding verbal dominance?
What are the effects of “powerless” verbal and nonverbal communication patterns?
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