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    Adaptive Structuration Theory posits that group decision making is influenced, not determined, by various factors such as composition, communication networks, and norms. It rejects the idea that groups always progress through single phases or sequences. Instead, it argues that groups adapt rules and resources through communication in a dynamic process of structuration. This process both shapes and is shaped by the group's interactions in a duality of structure. The theory focuses on how groups empower themselves and can enact gradual, self-directed change.

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    Adaptive Structuration Theory

    Scott Poole
    GROUP DECISION MAKING
    INFLUENCED not DETERMINED by:
    group composition, communication
    networks, status hierarchies, task
    requirements, group norms, peer
    pressure
    ADAPTIVE STRUCTURATION THEORY
    moves beyond determinism, beyond
    phases
    Basic Ideas
     Addresses issues of stability and
    change, free will and determination
     Rejects a single sequence of group
    effectiveness in decision-making
     Few groups (25%) follow a single
    sequence model
     Group dynamics too complicated to
    reduce to simple propositions
    Structuration
    Structuration: People enter into situations not
    of their own making, yet can transform it
    Rules: ideas people have about how something
    should be done
    Resources: materials, possessions, attributes
    (incl. expertise, relationships) people bring; in
    short-supply, unequally distributed
    Production: people ADAPT rules and resources
    in interaction
    Reproduction: action reinforces existing
    system.
    Structuration (2)
     People consciously adapt rules and
    resources to accomplish goals
    THROUGH COMMUNICATION
     Interaction raises concerns of morality,
    communication and power
     Rules and resources restrain/empower
     Appropriation: rules/resources
    borrowed from parent culture (e.g. one
    person, one vote; balloting; anonymous
    idea generation)
    Structuration (3)
     Spirit – the values behind the
    interaction, hold rules and resources
    together. Spirit determines when
    appropriation is faithful or ironic.
    Duality of Structure
     Rules and resources are both the medium
    and the outcome of the interaction. A
    decision is affected by rules and resources,
    but it also affects those structures.
     Rules and resources can be stable through
    continual use, or can change, sometimes
    gradually through “interpenetration of
    structures” (e.g. consensus method might
    interpenetrate voting method)
    Implications and Critique
     Groups create themselves
     Focus on empowerment
     Preference for small, gradual changes
     Ethical preferences for certain forms of
    communication not essential to the
    theory: e.g. anti-authoritarian, pro-
    democratic, anti-conformist

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