Groups That Work: Structure and ProcessSocial workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meetings, working in and with groups. What meaning does participation in these groups have for members? Some of the events that are most important for members of the various professions, and those whom they serve, take place within these groups. Health and human services depend upon their working groups for their development and allocation of resources, their standards of quality, and the evaluation of their success or failure. In short, these groups are relied upon to come up with creative solutions to complex problems. |
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... chairs, staff, or sometimes all three. Each of these terms deserves some attention to definitions. In this book, we ... chair is one ofthe members ofthe group.The staffperson is not and is paid by the organization. It should be noted ...
... chair, though in various organizational settings this person may be known as president, chairman of the board, executive director, executive vice president, commander, department head, section chief, presiding officer, task force leader ...
... chair, gathering and presenting information, and other tasks may be included here. More general responsibilities such as keeping an eye on general goals and scanning the group's environment for changes in the organizational ...
... chair of the task force Dr. J. J.Wiley, retired president of the local branch ofthe state university, a man noted for his devotion to the needs of older persons throughout his lengthy educational career. In an editorial generally ...
... chair ofthe chiefs ofservice group. Chief of Ob/Gyn: Eliza McCracken, M.D., is a sixty-year-old Canadian who has authored a textbook entitled Medical Practice: A Woman's View. She is an active contributor to organizations that promote ...
Contents
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12 | |
3 Toward a Model of Working Groups | 27 |
4 The Democratic Microcosm
| 43 |
Benchmarks and Guideposts
| 53 |
6 Leadership in Working Groups
| 68 |
7 Leadership and Contexts
| 87 |
8 Problem Solving and Decision Making
| 97 |
11 Organizational Settings and Styles | 141 |
12 Technologies for Group Maintenance Operation
and Productivity | 160 |
13 Recurring Problems in Groups and Suggested
Staff Responses | 183 |
14 Perspectives for Professional Practice
with Working Groups | 195 |
Population of SelfDescriptive QSort Statements | 209 |
Notes
| 215 |
Bibliography
| 217 |
Index
| 229 |