Exam 5: Groups and Organizations.

Discuss group leadership including functions and styles.

Sociologist __________ suggested that small groups have distinctive interaction patterns that do not exist in larger groups.

__________ is a form of compliance in which people follow direct orders from someone in a position of authority.

Larger groups typically have __________ leadership structures. Their leaders are expected to perform a variety of roles, some related to the internal workings of the group and others related to external relationships with other groups.

Suppose you are leading a dozen inexperienced backpackers in the mountains and your group is preparing to settle in for the night around the campfire. You realize that someone in the group is missing and a severe thunderstorm is forecasted. The __________ style of leadership would be most effective in this situation.

Joe is a member of a group that is developing a questionnaire as a group project in his sociology class. Whenever they meet, Joe finds that there is conflict between several group members and that other group members are getting upset and are thinking about leaving the group. Joe has a "why can't we all just be friends and get along" attitude. As a result, he is continuously trying to improve group harmony and trying to reduce the conflict in the group. Joe would be considered the __________ leader of the group.

All men with red hair, all people who wear glasses, all people over 6 feet tall, and all college women who belong to a sorority would be called a(n) __________.

Max Weber discussed the kind of setting or situation where the participation of others is excluded, limited, or subject to conditions. Weber termed this

In a disaster like Hurricane Katrina, a(n) _______ leadership style has proven to be most effective.

The __________ is the "informal, customary values and rules that mediate the formal authority structure of the workplace and distance workers from its impact."