The 35th President of the United States understood the importance of diversity in our world. The above quote is an excerpt from his Commencement Address at the American University on June 10th of 1963. Today -- 53 years later -- our generation is still trying to embrace diversity and inclusion in various ways. One of the places in which diversity and inclusion is essential is in college and university environments. For the Group Communication course held in the Fall 2016 quarter, students were assigned groups and were asked to explore different concepts relating to Group Communication theory. Members for groups were randomly selected by Dr. Boyraz, thereby allowing a greater possibility for diversity to occur. This factor of random group
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Eventually, the selection process forced some students to further explore the importance of group communication, as well as experience the benefits that arise from gaining further knowledge in group dynamic …show more content…
As previously mentioned, our group had an abundance of cohesiveness which allowed a group norm to arise more naturally. Norms in a group environment are those ideas backing what should and should not be done to accomplish the overall goal. Norms are more commonly imposed by group members themselves. My personal selection of this norms characteristics emerges from my friendship with Zahra. Zahra is our classmate who is visually impaired. Because norms oftentimes come so naturally when one is in a group setting, it is essential to emphasize the importance of norms because of our particular group. Our group can be characterized by its highly evident diversity. Ordinary norms that were previously taken for granted had to be revisited and modified in order for them to properly apply to our group. Due to Zahra’s impairment, our group implemented the norm that we would always start our meetings by hearing out Zahra’s input, as well as express what areas she felt that she needed further help on. Due to the cohesiveness and comfort level of our group, we were able to institute some accommodations that would make Zahra feel included within our group
Eventually, the selection process forced some students to further explore the importance of group communication, as well as experience the benefits that arise from gaining further knowledge in group dynamic …show more content…
As previously mentioned, our group had an abundance of cohesiveness which allowed a group norm to arise more naturally. Norms in a group environment are those ideas backing what should and should not be done to accomplish the overall goal. Norms are more commonly imposed by group members themselves. My personal selection of this norms characteristics emerges from my friendship with Zahra. Zahra is our classmate who is visually impaired. Because norms oftentimes come so naturally when one is in a group setting, it is essential to emphasize the importance of norms because of our particular group. Our group can be characterized by its highly evident diversity. Ordinary norms that were previously taken for granted had to be revisited and modified in order for them to properly apply to our group. Due to Zahra’s impairment, our group implemented the norm that we would always start our meetings by hearing out Zahra’s input, as well as express what areas she felt that she needed further help on. Due to the cohesiveness and comfort level of our group, we were able to institute some accommodations that would make Zahra feel included within our group