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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... Decision Making . Stages/Phases ofGroup Development Teams and Team Building Organizational Settings and Styles Technologiesfor Group Maintenance, Operation, and Productivity Recurring Problems in ...
... , and following through on decisions reached during the meetings.Technically, of course, only some of these so-called groups deserve.. the name. Others are collectives or aggregations, or encounters, or 1. Working in Groups.
... decisions reached in groups. Particular targets of services are selected. Criteria for future decisions are developed. Group members learn a wide range of knowledge, attitudes, and skills.Judgments are made, hirings and firings planned ...
... decision maker. Organizations can be viewed as interlocking networks of small groups and groups as the parts of organizations that defines the relevance of other parts of the organization. With the emphasis on creativity that ...
... decision was made to consider social group work as a part of social work, and the AAGW was one of the organizations that formed the National Association of Social Workers in .The group dynamics idea grew to span boundaries, as ...
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 |