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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... experience teachers who cared deeply both about groups and about their students.There were too many to mention them all, but we refer especially to the late Saul Bernstein, Herbert Thelen, and Mary Louis Somers.What's useful about this ...
... experiences in local unions and trade associations, charitable organizations, churches, synagogues, or other religious groups, community councils, political clubs, sports teams, community choruses, and ethnic organizations, each with ...
... experienced comparatively little formal teaching and learning about how to work together in groups. For the most part, our society has relied on catch-as-catch-can experiences and folk wisdom as sources oflearning about working groups ...
... experience for therapeutic or people-changing purposes under professional direction at any given time.A much larger ... experiences at work is now being widely recognized as an important topic for attention.This is true both in the ...
... experience? . What will the staff person do? Clear expectations regarding the staff role need to be spelled out. Such activities as keeping a discussion going, taking minutes, following up on group decisions between meetings, working ...
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 |