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What is Communication Patterns
Communication Patterns is a term designating a structure of communication links in the work team and its evaluation in terms of efficiency of communication and satisfaction of group members.

Communication Patterns are a structures of communication links in the work team and its evaluation in terms of efficiency of communication and satisfaction of group members.

In 1950, Harold J. Leavitt described the communication patterns in the four-and five-member group as follows:

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Each pattern is based on the viewpoint of efficiency and satisfaction of group members in a variety of different experiments. However, in the long run, after the gradual building up and improving the functioning of the network, the best pattern is “network” for autonomous (self-managed) teams and the “wheel” for centrally managed teams.

For the transmission of especially tacit knowledge is the most appropriate structure “Network” - see also social network.

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