Description of Group
The group consists of eight
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The group consists of eight members, three females and five males, all of whom are involved as General Partners in a group salvaging sunken ships in the South China Sea. The leader of the group is also in charge of the recovery program. The remainder of the group are investors who put up seed money for the project. The group has been together for three years. The group meets once or twice a year, when the leader is in town, to discuss progress on the venture, and future projects. Four members of the group are all friends of long-standing, and two of them had been involved in prior ventures with the group leader. A fifth member is an associate of the group leader, and the two have worked together before on such projects. Another member is the wife of the group leader. I am involved for investment purposes. The group leader is responsible for recruiting new investors and overseeing dive operations at recovery sites. He is also a professional diver and scouts out the sites. He acts as a liaison with the foreign governments involved. Workers are recruited locally for much of the actual recovery work, although the leader and one other group members also do much of the diving, along with a group of professional divers from the US. It is my duty to keep in touch with the group leader when he is overseas, and keep the rest of the group updated with progress reports via the internet. Another female member is respons
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efits from social interactions and cooperative efforts between members of the group. This is also true of the group I belong to. As we have come together on this project, we have gained a deeper understanding of each other, and learned from one another, and in sharing in a common project, we have often found other areas in which we can work together in various subgroups to our mutual benefit.
Since we are all computer-literate, much of our communication is done via the computer, with websites and emails. Postmes, Spears and Lea found that when groups use computer communications frequently, communication patterns form which are unique to the group (341-371)). They found with time, this uniformity of communication methods increases, and sets the group apart from outside communicators. The group communicate differently with people who are not in the group than they do with people within the group. This may be because they share a common bond with their fellow group members as they have come to know them even better since they became a group.
Evaluation of Research Methodology
There are certain disadvantages to participation observation in this type of situation. Because of the leaderĘs particular expertise in the type
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Research Methodology, Analysis Structure, Richeson Ambady, Stolle Rochon, Hawthorne Effect, Renzetti Curran, China Sea, Spears Lea, Theoretical Perspective, , gender bias, via computer, communication via computer, towards women, major decisions, decisions makes, future projects, deeper understanding, leader diving, wife leader, outside observer,
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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