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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... function they perform for organizations is true, in the views of theorists, for all organizations.We shall point out repeatedly and from various angles that nowhere is this more the case than in organizations devoted to the provision of ...
... function, which can be defined loosely as “making the group's wheels go round.” Whichever terms one uses to describe the processes and life ofthe group, each reader may be expected to have emotional reactions to them. For example, the ...
... function of an unkind and random fate.The point ofview of this book is that, while much ofwhat goes on in groups is ... functions.Thus we include in the elements of a contract the respective behaviors, authority, powers, and ...
... functions not only as a facilitator and doer in the group but also as a representative of the host organization, especially during the contracting process.The organization (if there is one) has a major stake in the frames of ...
... function and services? What will happen to staff? What role ought Mr. Bancroft to take, and how should he operationalize this role in behavioral terms? . What is/ought/will be the executive director's role in influencing board ...
Contents
1 | |
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 |