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Communication 2zero7 Semester Project Topic List Fall 2002
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Each group will select one of the topics below for their semester group project. The semester group project requires a 10 page research paper, the conversion of this paper into a PowerPoint presentation, and a 60 mintue oral presentation. Group may select their own topic for their semester paper/presentation but it must be chosen in collaboration with the instructor.
Potential Topic List For Team Essay and PowerPoint Presentation
1. Virtual Teams
I. What is a virtual team? (20-21)
II. What obstacles or barriers to communication does one encounter when working in
in a virtual team?
III. What rules and strategies can be used to build relationship when working in virtual
teams? (319)
IV. What rules and strategies can be used to engage in effective role performance when
when working in virtual teams? (323--328)
V. What rules and strategies can be used to engage in effective team-building when
working in a virtual team? (328-330)
2. Group Communication Supports Systems (21-27)
I. What are the major types of GCSS?
II. What are the defining characteristics of the major GCSS?
III. What are the strengths and limitations of major GCSS?
IV. What future trends will likely characterized GCSS?
2. Consciousness-Raising and Team-Building (47-55) (71-75)
I. What is consciousness-raising?
II. Why is CR talk important when working in teams?
III. What rules and strategies can be employed to build teams and create a shared group
identity or shared group consciousness?
3. The Stages in the Process of Group Consciousness-Raising
I. What is consciousness-raising?
II. What are the stages in the development of group consciousness?
A. Stage One
1) what are important group goals at stage 1?
2) what rules and strategies can facilitate goal attainment?
B. Stage Two
1) what are important group goals at stage 1?
2) what rules and strategies can facilitate goal attainment?
C. Stage Three
1) what are important group goals at stage 1?
2) what rules and strategies can facilitate goal attainment?
D. Stage Four
1) what are important group goals at stage 1?
2) what rules and strategies can facilitate goal attainment?
4. Social-Roles and Effective Role Performance (66-67) (236-249)
I. What is a social role?
II. What are social roles important in teams?
III. What are the major social roles when working as a member of a project team?
IV. What rules and strategies can be used to enhance effective role performance?
5 Interpersonal Communication and Building Relationship (177-186) (67-70) (196-200)
I. What is interpersonal communication and building relationships important when working in
teams?
II. What obstacles inhibit or constrain or inhibit communication and the development of
relationships when working in teams?
III. What rules and strategies can be used to build and maintain relationships when working
as a member of a project team?
6. Ethics and Small Group Communication (75-80)
I. What is ethics?
II. What is an ethical code?
III. What are the components of most ethical codes?
IV. What types of ethical dilemmas or problems are common in a group or team?
V. What are the ten ethical commitments when working as a member of a
project team?
7. Leadership and Power (207-209)
I. What is leadership?
II. What is power?
III. What are the five basis of social power that can be used to exert leadership?
IV. What communication strategies can be used when employing each type of power?
8. Position-Centered and Person-centered leadership( 216-222)
I. What is persuasion? What is social influence?
II. What is position-centered communication?
III. What roles and rule power strategies can be used to exert position-centered
leadership?
IV. What is person-centered communication?
V.. What persuasive and person power strategies can be used to exert person
centered leadership?
9. The Ten Commandments of Leadership? (Kouzes and Posner) (276)
I. What are the practices and commitments of the ten commandment of leadership?
10. Conflict Management and Resolution ((216-281)
I. What is conflict?
II. What are the types of conflict?
II. What factors influence the level of conflict within a team?
11. Conflict Management and Resolution (281 -297)
I. What is conflict?
II. What are the five styles or strategic options when confronted with interpersonal
conflict?
III. In what situations are each of these styles likely to be the most effective and
appropriate response to interpersonal conflict?
IV. What specific communication strategies are characteristics of each of these styles of
conflict talk?
12. The Group Problem-Solving Roadmap (86) (33-41)
I. What are the two primary lanes on the problem-solving roadmap?
II. What are
the general stages of problem-solving in a problem-solving group?
A. Stage One
1) What are important group goals?
a) orientation
1) what rules and strategies can promote orientation?
b) manage primary tension
2) what rules and strategies can be used to manage primary tension?
B. Stage Two
1)) What are the important group goals?
1) idea generation
what strategies can be used to promote idea generation?
2) idea evaluation
what strategies can be used to promote idea evaluation?
3) manage secondary tension (role conflict)
what strategies can be used to manage role emergence/conflict?
C. Stage 3
1) What are the important group goals at this stage?
1)negotiation
what strategies can be used to negotiate effectively
2) achieving consensus
what strategies can be used to build consensus?
3) managing recurring primary and secondary tension
what strategies can be used to manage recurring tension?
4) building group cohesion
what strategies can be used to build group cohesion?
13. Organizational Culture
I. What is organizational culture?
II. Why is organizational culture important?
III. What communication strategies can be used to build and maintain
organizational culture?