SOCI 1311 1st Edition Lecture 15 Chapter 7 Groups and Organizations What are Primary groups Family close friendships first group experience Secondary Groups weak emotional ties These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute short term Group Leadership a types of leadership a i instrumental leaders focus is completion of tasks members look to leader for direction and leaders give orders with rewards punishment Not interested in building personal ties a ii Expressive Leaders Raising group morale people oriented focus on group well being build more personal ties and sympathetic to members a iii Examples expressive parents counselors IV Utilitarian normative and coercive organizations Read about them in the book will be on exam 3 Decision making styles Authoritarian leadership Style Leader makes all the decisions and demands total compliance Don t care for affection and is appreciated in terms of crisis Democratic Leadership Style All have input in decision making but less successful in times of crisis Laissez Faire Leadership Style Mainly lets the group function on it s own Least effective in promoting goals VI Group Size a Simmel s Book Conflict the Web of Group Affiliations a i The Dyad A two member group very intimate relationship but very unstable Married couple a ii The Triad a three member group more stable than dyad and allows more interactions administration workers and union iii The more people in the group the more stable VII Bureaucratic Organizations Bureaucracy is an organizational model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently Max Weber s 6 characteristics of bureaucracy b i Specialization of labor b ii Hierarchy of offices b iii Rules and Regulations b iv Hiring is based on competency b v They are impersonal b vi formal VIII Problems with Bureaucracy Ritualism Rules and regulations to the point of affecting an organizations goals Work it becomes monotonous same thing every day
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