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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... reasons that working groups haven't received as much attention as they deserve. A brief look at some of the history and sociology of approaches to work with groups may provide some answers. Working Groups and the Sociology of Group Work ...
... reason expertise in group work sounded and felt a bit slippery in an earlier, industrial, productionoriented world. Now, when we are used to viewing with respect skills such as computer programming, information systems design, and ...
... reasons for this. First, some purposes are implicit and may never be spelled out. For example, staff persons are unlikely to state group cohesion as a goal at first because they think that this is not a purpose that is real for the ...
... reasons for termination occur when members are either recalled by the organizations they represent or leave for personal reasons. These possibilities mean that the issue of commitment needs to be examined early in the group's life ...
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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 |