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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... society at large.The fabric of social living for many adults is woven of experiences in local unions and trade associations, charitable organizations, churches, synagogues, or other religious groups, community councils, political clubs ...
... society has relied on catch-as-catch-can experiences and folk wisdom as sources oflearning about working groups. This book is an attempt to fill some gaps in readers' educations. Before we proceed, it may be helpful to look at some of ...
... society. Equally important, group work 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 ...
... society and a corollary emphasis on the importance of democratic group participation; group workers were to learn skills in working with citizens' groups, in particular. In our opinion, these emphases have been somewhat neglected over ...
... society, and in the effective delivery ofsuch services to those who need them. In sum, it is our point ofview that those who are concerned with social planning and social change are precisely the people who need to be con- cerned with ...
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 |