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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... specific contracting behaviors in chapter , contracting is such a basic process that some preliminary thoughts are in order.The contract as an agreement does not carry quite the force ofa legal document.As a working framework, however ...
... specific as possible. Purposes define plans; contracts need a compass. In Example A below,“The Mayor's Task Force,” the first charge to the group is to “survey existing services for the frail elderly.”What this means for the task force ...
... specific, that is, a result of the fact that it is a group of chiefs of service and department heads of a hospital? Example D:The Long-Range Planning Committee of the Jewish Federation of frames of reference for understanding work ...
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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 |