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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... skill and good humor. A privilege we shared was to experience teachers who cared deeply both about groups and about their students.There were too many to mention them all, but we refer especially to the late Saul Bernstein, Herbert ...
... skills.Judgments are made, hirings and firings planned and confirmed, influence strategies adopted, and rewards and sanctions distributed, all within the context of working groups in which professionals serve as members, chairs, staff ...
... programs ofprofessional education would pay them lots of attention. One might expect that the skills required for both effective participation and effective leadership in such groups would be widely working in groups.
... skills were presented as applicable to a wide range of types of groups, including, explicitly, working groups. A very influential text of the postwar period (Wilson and Ryland, ) not only devoted a chapter to “administrative ...
... skills in working with citizens' groups, in particular. In our opinion, these emphases have been somewhat neglected over the past thirty years or so. Staffs and their processes, though omnipresent in service delivery organizations, have ...
Contents
1 | |
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 |