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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... contributions of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups in reviving the importance—indeed, the primacy—of the small group in social work. Much has changed since the first edition.What has changed is not so much ...
... contributions to the working groups that compose the organizations within which most professional lives are lived.We shall elaborate on this perspective in several chapters and illustrations in this book. If working groups are so ...
... contributions of these refugees blended with the earlier, indigenous concerns of others to produce a sizable constituency of writers, theorists, and practitioners whose interests centered on group processes and group work. During the ...
... contributing to the development of a better, more just, more equitable, more humanistic society. Equally important, group work skills were presented as applicable to a wide range of types of groups, including, explicitly, working groups ...
... contributing to the building of society and a corollary emphasis on the importance of democratic group participation; group workers were to learn skills in working with citizens' groups, in particular. In our opinion, these emphases ...
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 |