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Spee 170; Small Group Communication
Mixed Company: Chap 2 Glossary Terms
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09/05/2010

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Adaptability
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Adjustment of group boundaries in response to changing conditions.
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Argot
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Private vocabulary peculiarto a specific group or individual.
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Boundary control
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Regulation that determines the amount of access a group has to input and thus influence from outsiders in a system.
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Deep diversity
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Substantial variation among members in taks-relevant skills, knowledge, abilities, beliefs, values, perspectives, and problem-solving strategies.
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Entropy
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A measure of a systems's movement toward disorganization and eventual termination.
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Input
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Resources that come from outside a system, such as energy (sunlight, electricity), information (Internet, books), and people (a new group group member).
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Negative synergy
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Group members working together produce a worse result that expected based on perceived individual skills and abilities of members.
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Network
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A structured pattern of information flow and personal contact.
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Opennesss
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Degree of continuous interchange with the environment outside of a system.
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Openness
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Degree of continuous interchanger with the environment outside of a system.
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Role
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Pattern of expected behavior associated with parts that members play in grps. Role conflict when grp members play roles in different grps that contradict ea. other.
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Synergy
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Grp performance from joint action of members exceeds expectations based on perceived abilities and skills of individual grp members.
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Throughput
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Process of transforming input into output to keep a system functioning.
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