Assignment #4: Group Roles
In this assignment you will reflect upon roles that you have played in various groups.
Step 1: Please read Chapter 8 of our textbook.
Please focus particularly on the charts that describe task, maintenance, and negative roles in small groups - p. 211-212 - in our Trenholm textbook Please also refer to chapter 8 overall for discussion of group roles.
Step 2: Please consider three specific roles you play/have played in groups in which you are a member (current or past). You can select one group or three separate groups.
Step 3: Please respond to the following questions/prompts:
- Identify three specific roles you play/have played in groups in which you are a current or past member.
- Please provide an example of how you have played each role.
- Describe in detail the effectiveness and/or ineffectiveness of the presence of such roles in the group.
- Why do you/have you assumed each of these roles?
Please italicize or bold course concepts and provide page numbers for each.
This paper should be about 1.5-2 pages in length, double-spaced.
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