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Readiness Assurance Process

Individual Readiness Assessment Test #8

Team Readiness Assessment Test #8

Group Appeals (provide forms)

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       Explain the significance of power in the small-group arena.

       Define power--what it is and is not.

       Delineate most common sources of power.

       Examine the primary indicators of power in small groups.
 

        Lecture/Discussion "Power in Groups:  A Central Dynamic"

Topic: Sources and Distribution of Power in Small Groups!
 
CHAPTER DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Assignments:

CASE STUDY #3 ASSIGNED

There are four primary perspectives on effective leadership (trait, styles, situational, and functional), Rothwell provides information regarding these leadership perspectives on pages 158-170. This journal asks students to identify and discuss three sources of leadership which occurs in COM 281:

1. The leadership employed by the professor in teaching the course. Provide specific examples to support your position regarding the professor's leadership style. Is the leadership style effective? Why or why not?

How does this leadership style enhance (or interfere) with your ability to learn about communicating in small groups?

2. The leadership employed in your group. Which one person seems to be the emergent leader? Does the leader emerge because of individual leadership qualities or by default (e.g., no one else is willing or able to lead)? Explain and support your answer with specific details and examples.

3. The leadership style that you would employ if you were a designated leader. What should members expect of a designated leader? When these expectations are not met, what should group members do?

WORKSHOP #4 DUE THURSDAY!