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Groups and Organizations
What We Covered So Far…Defining groups
◦ Interaction◦ Goal(s)◦ Identity◦ As opposed to categories and aggregates
Primary / Secondary groups
Effects of group size: as group size increases (from dyad to triad and beyond) Stability increases Division of labor Formality increases: from primary to secondary
Leadership Functions (instrumental / expressive) Styles (authoritarian, laissez-faire,
democratic) Authority (traditional, charismatic,
rational-legal)
Group Dynamics Conformity (Asch) Obedience (Milgram) In-group / out-group
Group Dynamic: The Power of the Situation Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment:
Video Part 1 Video Part 2 Video Part 3
One More Group Dynamic: Groupthink
Formal Organizations Structured secondary groups to achieve goals in an efficient manner Normative / Coercive / Utilitarian
Bureaucracy Hierarchy of authority Division of labor Explicit rules and procedures Impersonality
Problems Rigidity Inefficiency Goal displacement Resistance to change Perpetuation of inequalities
A Better Model? NetworksNetwork:
Nodes
Links
Clusters
Nodes
Links
Clusters
The Al Qaeda Network Global
Decentralized
Flexible
Multi-directional