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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... which we have worked. As in the first edition, the authors share equal responsibility for the words and ideas in this text, an experience that will be remembered with a smile. groups that work Working in Groups T his book is viii preface.
... responsibilities, their interest as citizens in creating some sort of a product, or making a difference in the community or the broader world, or a combination ofthe two.Working groups do not aim primarily at changing the attitudes or ...
... responsibility for working with, advising, and following through on decisions made by various groups. Characteristically, such people hold administrative responsibility within organizations.We will use the term chair for an elected or ...
... responsibilities for the 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 ...
... responsibilities ofthe staffperson and the group members, and sometimes of the sponsoring organization as well. Contracting in groups is a dynamic and flexible process that starts with the first glimmer of the group's conception and ...
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 |