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| The State of being involved with others; a human need. |
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| The emotion of caring for others/ and or being cared for. |
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| The ability to influence our environment. |
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| The emotion of caring for others and/or being cared for. |
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| The ability to influence our environment. |
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| Small-Group Communication |
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| Interaction amoung three to nine people working together to achieve an interdependent. |
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| Also called primary groups; groups that are usually long-term and exist to meet our needs for inclusion and affection. |
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| Groups that evolve out of a hierachy whereby individuals are assigned memebership to the group. |
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| Groups that evolve out of hierchy whereby individuals are assigned membership to the group. |
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| Groups resulting from environmental conditions leading to the formation of a cohesive group of individuals. |
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| Using communication to influence the behaviors and atitudes of others to meet group goals. |
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| Someone who has been appointed or elected to a leadership postion. |
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| Someone who becomes an informal leader by exerting influence toward achievement of a groups goal. |
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| Interpersonal influence that forms the basis for group leadership. |
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| Leaders who encourage members to particpate in group decisions. |
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| Leaders who take almost no initiative in structuring in a group. |
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| Leaders who maintain strict control over their group. |
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| Informal rules for group interaction created and sustained through communication. |
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| A consistent pattern of interaction or behavior exhibted over time. |
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| Also called postional role; an assigned role based on an assigned role based on an indivdual's position or title within a group. |
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| A role that is developed spontaneously within a group. |
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| Behaviors that are directly relevant to the group's task and that affect the group's productivity. |
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| Behaviors that focus on the interpersonal relationships among group members. |
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| Behaviors that serve the needs of the individual at the expense of the group. |
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| The emotional tone or atmosphere members create within the group. |
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| A unintended outcome of cohesion in group with anyalsis or dicussion. |
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| The Socially negotiated system of rules that guide group behavior. |
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| The presence of observable and/or implicit differences among group members. |
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| Group tasks for which no one member has all the necessary information but each member has some information to contribute. |
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| Group tasks that require little coordination and that can be completed by the most skilled member working alone. |
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| The standards by which a group must judge potential solutions. |
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| Groups of people who have an interest in actions of an organization. |
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| Group Decision Support System |
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| An interactive network of computers with specialized software allowing users to generate solutions for unstructured problems. |
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| An expressed struggle between two or members in a group. |
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