Adams, Katherine
Communicating in groups : applications and skills / Katherine Adams, California State University, Fresno, Gloria J. Galanes, Missouri State University. - Tenth Edition. - 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Revised edition of the authors' Communicating in groups, [2015] About the Author
Katherine L. Adams is Professor of Speech Communication at California State University, Fresno, where she received a Meritorious Promise and Performance award in 1989. She has served as their Graduate Coordinator since 1989. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah under the direction of B. Aubrey Fisher. She has authored four instructor?s manuals in interpersonal and small group communication and most recently, this group communication book with Gloria Galanes. She has published articles in the areas of conversational analysis and interpersonal communication. Currently she is an associate editor for Communication Reports and The Western Journal of Communication. She participates, at all levels, in the Western States Communication Association and Speech Communication Association and teaches in the areas of interpersonal communication, communication theory, small group communication, and research methods.
Gloria Galanes
Gloria J. Galanes is Associate Professor of Communication and Mass Media at Southwest Missouri St. University and has received the University?s Faculty Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member awards.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART ONE: Orientation to Small Group Systems
Chapter 1: Small Groups as the Heart of Society
Chapter 2: Groups as Structured Open Systems
PART TWO: Foundations of Small Group Communicating
Chapter 3: Communication Principles for Group Members
Chapter 4: Using Verbal and Nonverbal Messages in Small Group Communication
PART THREE: From Individuals to Group
Chapter 5: Becoming a Group
Chapter 6: Working with Diversity in the Small Group
PART FOUR: Understanding and Improving Group Throughput Processes
Chapter 7: Creative and Critical Thinking in the Small Group
Chapter 8: Group Problem-Solving Procedures
Chapter 9: Managing Conflicts Productively
Chapter 10: Applying Leadership Principles
*ONLINE ONLY*: PART FIVE: Small Group Public Presentations
Chapter 11: Planning, Organizing, and Presenting Small Group Oral Presentations
Appendix A: Techniques for Observing Problem-Solving Groups
9781260083903
2016055382
Small groups.
Interpersonal relations.
HM736 / .G33 2018
302
Communicating in groups : applications and skills / Katherine Adams, California State University, Fresno, Gloria J. Galanes, Missouri State University. - Tenth Edition. - 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Revised edition of the authors' Communicating in groups, [2015] About the Author
Katherine L. Adams is Professor of Speech Communication at California State University, Fresno, where she received a Meritorious Promise and Performance award in 1989. She has served as their Graduate Coordinator since 1989. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah under the direction of B. Aubrey Fisher. She has authored four instructor?s manuals in interpersonal and small group communication and most recently, this group communication book with Gloria Galanes. She has published articles in the areas of conversational analysis and interpersonal communication. Currently she is an associate editor for Communication Reports and The Western Journal of Communication. She participates, at all levels, in the Western States Communication Association and Speech Communication Association and teaches in the areas of interpersonal communication, communication theory, small group communication, and research methods.
Gloria Galanes
Gloria J. Galanes is Associate Professor of Communication and Mass Media at Southwest Missouri St. University and has received the University?s Faculty Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member awards.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART ONE: Orientation to Small Group Systems
Chapter 1: Small Groups as the Heart of Society
Chapter 2: Groups as Structured Open Systems
PART TWO: Foundations of Small Group Communicating
Chapter 3: Communication Principles for Group Members
Chapter 4: Using Verbal and Nonverbal Messages in Small Group Communication
PART THREE: From Individuals to Group
Chapter 5: Becoming a Group
Chapter 6: Working with Diversity in the Small Group
PART FOUR: Understanding and Improving Group Throughput Processes
Chapter 7: Creative and Critical Thinking in the Small Group
Chapter 8: Group Problem-Solving Procedures
Chapter 9: Managing Conflicts Productively
Chapter 10: Applying Leadership Principles
*ONLINE ONLY*: PART FIVE: Small Group Public Presentations
Chapter 11: Planning, Organizing, and Presenting Small Group Oral Presentations
Appendix A: Techniques for Observing Problem-Solving Groups
9781260083903
2016055382
Small groups.
Interpersonal relations.
HM736 / .G33 2018
302