Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
- Articulate the four functions and three types of communication identified in the functional approach to decision making
- Recommend strategies to prevent groupthink
- Articulate how adaptive structuration theory illuminates the group decision-making process
- Explain the development of a rhetorical vision using symbolic convergence theory
- Compare and contrast major theoretical approaches to group communication
- Provide systematic understanding of a professional situation by employing theories of group communication