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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... serve, take place within working groups. Points of view are accepted or rejected, modified or voted into effect. Decisions are reached that either enable or support, or frustrate and discourage the deepest purposes of professionals ...
... serve their executive functions.Thus we include in the elements of a contract the respective behaviors, authority, powers, and responsibilities ofthe staffperson and the group members, and sometimes of the sponsoring organization as ...
... serves the city ofAvon and its surrounding suburbs.The society is governed by a board of directors, which has traditionally included younger members ofthe first families ofthe community. In fact, after holding office on the board of ...
... serves as a training site for students of medicine, nursing, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, dentistry, clinical psychology, and health care administration.The meetings are chaired by the annually elected president ...
... served three terms as chair ofthe chiefs ofservice group. Chief of Ob/Gyn: Eliza McCracken, M.D., is a sixty-year-old Canadian who has authored a textbook entitled Medical Practice: A Woman's View. She is an active contributor to ...
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 |