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| Adjustment of group boundaries in response to changing conditions. |
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| Private vocabulary peculiarto a specific group or individual. |
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| Regulation that determines the amount of access a group has to input and thus influence from outsiders in a system. |
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| Substantial variation among members in taks-relevant skills, knowledge, abilities, beliefs, values, perspectives, and problem-solving strategies. |
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| A measure of a systems's movement toward disorganization and eventual termination. |
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| Resources that come from outside a system, such as energy (sunlight, electricity), information (Internet, books), and people (a new group group member). |
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| Group members working together produce a worse result that expected based on perceived individual skills and abilities of members. |
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| A structured pattern of information flow and personal contact. |
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| Degree of continuous interchange with the environment outside of a system. |
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| Degree of continuous interchanger with the environment outside of a system. |
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| Pattern of expected behavior associated with parts that members play in grps. Role conflict when grp members play roles in different grps that contradict ea. other. |
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| Grp performance from joint action of members exceeds expectations based on perceived abilities and skills of individual grp members. |
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| Process of transforming input into output to keep a system functioning. |
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