COMM 100: Intro to Communication Revised 2019 Group Communication: Exercise Name: Instructions: This assignment has three parts to it. Please complete all parts and then submit your assignment in D2L. Part 1 Styles Theory of leadership posits there are three styles: laissez-faire, authoritarian, and democratic. Explanation each style, and identify what type of group might be best suited to that style of leadership. Part 2 Describe how a group that you’ve been part of has gone through Tuckman’s Development Stages. If you are still in the group it’s okay to explain why adjourning has not occurred or how the group responded when a member has adjourned. Part 3 Make a list of the various groups in which you participate during a typical week. If it helps, you may select groups that you have been associated with in the past. Then use those groups as the basis for answering each of the following questions: a) What roles do you play in each? Do you find yourself engaging in any leadership behaviors? b) What roles have you noticed other group members play? How do those roles impact the group’s interactions? c) What power structures do you find yourself, and others, adhering to? Do some power structures seem more or less appropriate for a particular group than others? Why?
