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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... roles in working groups such as staff meetings, committees, subcommittees, task forces, boards of directors, commissions, and subunits of these bodies. Some professionals, especially those who hold jobs with major administrative ...
... Roles. Changes are still in process and include but are not limited to: a. Greater acceptance of sexual minority behavior. b. Sexuality primarily viewed as a means of establishing, maintaining, and changing relationships and as a means ...
... of group processes, to assume and exercise a leadership role in revitalizing interest, study, and practice in work groups as keys to change and stability. Frames of Reference for Understanding Work Groups The study working in groups.
... role need to be spelled out. Such activities as keeping a discussion going, taking minutes, following up on group decisions between meetings, working with the chair, gathering and presenting information, and other tasks may be included ...
... 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 composition? . Ought the board be doing strategic planning ...
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 |