Content and relationship dimensions of communication in decision‐making groups

This study attempts to further inquiry into the content and relationship dimensions of communicative behaviors. Analyses of relational interaction patterns of five groups (previously divided into four decision‐making phases by content interaction analyses] were submitted to Markov data analyses testing for order, homogeneity and stationarity. These results were then compared with conclusions drawn from an earlier study which hypothesized five plausible correlations of content and relationship functions performed by interaction patterning. Most of the earlier hypotheses proved to be consistent with the present data analysis, while others were not. An additional correlation of the content and relationship dimensions of communicative behaviors is also suggested for the context of group decision making.