Chapter 5 covers quite extensively three more of the internal influences in the Tubbs Model of Small Group Interaction: status and power, leadership, and group norms. This chapter examines the two types of status, ascribed and attained, and the five types of power: reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert. The chapter also discusses leadership and several different perspectives on how a leader is developed. Three perspectives are the trait theory, the circumstances theory, and the function theory. Leadership styles and situational leadership are described. Followership styles are discussed briefly, because every successful leader has followers. We then discuss conformity and the processes of social influence. The last subject in Chapter 5 is group development.
