John O. Burtis

Group Communication Pitfalls

Overcoming Barriers to an Effective Group Experience

Buch

This text treats groups and the work involved in grouping as useful tools humans have developed for responding to pressures or demands faced by group members. As these pressures and demands toward grouping arise, the differences between effective and ineffective groups may be small (as they begin to manifest), but they can become very large when measured by final group outcomes. Thus, it is important to be aware of the signs that a group is not doing well and to know how to help a group begin to do better. This book assumes an orientation that expects and detects group pitfalls as they arise, providing students with the foundation for overco… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Turman, Paul David

ISBN: 978-1-4129-1535-9
EAN: 9781412915359
Produktnummer: 1449829
Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 318 g
Gewicht: 318
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

John O. Burtis (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is a Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Northern Iowa. He has taught courses in leadership, management, group communication, argumentation, persuasion, and communication theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been a consultant, trainer, and speaker on related subjects in both the private and public sectors. He has been the director of the Concordia Leadership Center and of the West Central Minnesota Leadership Program and the head of the Communication Studies department at the University of Northern Iowa. He has been the Director of Forensics at Kansas State University and Concordia College, where students in the programs won numerous individual and team championships in speech or debate including more than twenty national championships.