Structure: Status and Networks

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Structure Status and Networks
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Structure

• Norms
• Roles
• Status
• Networks
• Cohesiveness

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Structure Interpersonal Relations

• Status

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Structure Interpersonal RelationsStatus
Hierarchies

• Status Relations Stable distributions of power
  or prestige within the group. The chain of
  command or hierarchy of dominance
• Status Differentiation the development of
  authority relations within groups.

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Structure Interpersonal RelationsClaiming
Status

• Those seeking high status are more likely to
• Tell other people what they should do
• Interpret other peoples statements
• Confirm or dispute others viewpoints
• Summarize or reflect on the discussion
• Status seekers use strong rather than weak
  statements

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Structure Interpersonal RelationsPerceiving
Status

• Group members intuitively take note of one
  anothers status characteristicspersonal
  qualities that they think are indicative of
  ability or prestige.

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Structure Interpersonal RelationsPerceiving
Status

• Specific-status characteristics are specific
  behavioral and interpersonal characteristics that
  group members take as evidence of ones ability
  at the task to be performed in the given
  situation
• Which characteristics do you look for at the
  beginning of a newly formed study group?
• Which characteristics do you look for in planning
  a major party or reception?

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Structure Interpersonal RelationsPerceiving
Status

• Diffuse-status characteristics are general
  qualities, such as sex and age, that group
  members use to allocate status in groups
• What general indicators do YOU use in estimating
  the ability or prestige of others?
• What general indicators indicate a lack of
  prestige or ability?

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Structure Interpersonal RelationsPerceiving
Status

• Diffuse-status characteristics are general
  qualities, such as sex and age, that group
  members use to allocate status in groups
• Status generalization The tendency for
  irrelevant, diffuse-status characteristics to
  influence the status hierarchy in the group

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Structure Interpersonal RelationsSocial
Standing

• Attraction relations patterns of liking and
  disliking within a group
• Sociometric differentiation the development of
  patterns of liking and disliking in a group
• Reciprocity and Transivity
• Clusters or cliques

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Structure Interpersonal Relations

• Networks

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Communication Networks

• A groups communication network may parallel
  formally established paths, but most groups also
  have an informal network that defines who speaks
  to whom most frequently.

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Communication Networks
The Chain -- Communication passes sequentially
from first to to last person .
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Communication Networks
Centralized -- All communica-tion flows through
one member (the Y and wheel are examples)
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Communication Networks
The Circle -- Communication flows sequentially
from first person to each member, but the circle
is completed.
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Communication Networks
The Comcon -- Communication flows in all
directions
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Communication Networks

• Centralized Networks are most efficient for
  simple tasks.
• Peripheral members are often dissatisfied within
  such networks.

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Communication Networks

• More information flows downward than upward in
  hierarchical networks
• In a hierarchical network, upward communication
  that is sent upward is often unrealistically
  positive.

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What Drives You Crazy?

• Part 1

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What Drives You Crazy?

• Incompetence
• Ingratitude
• Inefficiency
• Insensitivity
• Unreasonableness
• Lack of Cooperation
• Pessimism
• Restrictions
• Angry Outbursts

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What Drives You Crazy?

• Incompetence
• Ingratitude
• Inefficiency
• Insensitivity
• Unreasonableness
• Lack of Cooperation
• Pessimism
• Restrictions
• Angry Outbursts

• Perfectionism
• Emotion
• Superiority attitude
• Moodiness
• Excessive analysis
• Cautiousness
• Talkativeness
• Aggressiveness
• Procrastination