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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... group.What meanings does participation in these groups have for members? For the professional being observed, the meaning may be broad and deep. Some of the events that are most important for members of various professions, and those ...
... group.As a group matures, so does each membership.As Mills ( ) and many others have pointed out, in a mature group all group members share responsibility for the group's executive function, which can be defined loosely as “making the ...
... group that our medieval ancestors had regarding what goes on inside the human body. Like our ancestors, we are likely to view the workings of a group ... members, how and whether the group will be structured formally, what will be expected ...
... group immaturity or a lack of integration of group members, group purposes, and organizational goals. While we will discuss some specific contracting behaviors in chapter , contracting is such a basic process that some preliminary ...
... members work out.The staff person and the chair carry responsibility for translating an organization's purposes in sponsoring a group into operational terms to which the group can develop commitment. What makes this process complex is ...
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 |