Chapter 11, 12 and 13

For this chapter, our lecturer did not emphasize much on his own presentations, but instead, told us to prepare slides in order to help us understand more about the three chapters. So we prepared our own slides and presented it to the class.

In small groups, there are many different roles in a group that are involved in solving a specific task that are assigned to them, they are :

• Initiator
• Information Seeker
• Opinion Seeker
• Information giver
• Elaorator
• Coordinator
• Orienter
• Evaluator
• Energizer
• Procedural Technician
• Recorder

However, when the group is at a disagreement or faces complications, several individuals of the particular group will have to take roles as maintenance. These roles are important in order to build and improve the relationships of the group. The roles in particular are :

• Encourager
• Harmonizer
• Compromizer
• Gatekeeper
• Standard Setter
• Observer
• Follower

As there are roles that help to build and improve the relationships of the group, there has to be a negative side which affects the group, there are 8 in particular :

• Aggressor
• Blocker
• Recognition Seeker
• Self-Confessor
• Playboy/Playgirl
• Dominator
• Help Seeker
• Special Interset Pleader