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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... Understanding Work Groups . Toward a Model of Working Groups . The Democratic Microcosm . Leadership Theory: Benchmarks and Guideposts . Leadership in Working Groups . Leadership and Contexts ...
... understanding of them, of the organizations that are composed of ecologies of small groups, and the world in which these groups and organizations live. We acknowledge the supportive atmosphere set by Dean Jesse J. Harris of the ...
... understanding what has happened to knowledge about groups in other professions as well.The classical group work texts of the period from to (see Ephross, ) were clear on two points.All group work practice was ...
... 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.
... Understanding. Work. Groups. The. study of groups suffers from a surplus of terms to describe group phenomena and characteristics, so spending a little time on defining terms now may make what follows clearer for the reader.We label as ...
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 |