Synopsis
This classic collection of readings on group development includespieces on group practice and major research reports that you'llfind useful as course content in many training sessions. You willget a powerfully usable sense of group dynamics through thecombination of "what to look for" and "what to do" articles."[Groupmembers must be] aware of and sensitive to the fluctuating forceswithin the group, or their actions will in all probability beinappropriate."
--Leland P. Bradford, author
Articles include "Functional Roles of Group Members," "ImprovingDecision-Making with Groups," "Stereotypes and the Growth ofGroups," and "Trust and Managerial Problem Solving." Among theleading contributors to this essential resource are Warren Bennis,Alvin Zander, Gordon Lippitt, and Leland Bradford himself.Learn allabout:
* Functional roles of group members
* Diagnosis and solving problems within groups
* Trust and managerial problem-solving . . . and more!
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About the Author
LELAND P. BRADFORD, Ph.D., was co-founder of the National Training Laboratory in Group Development (now NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science), which he directed for twenty-five years. He served as an instructor in educational psychology at the University of Illinois and as training director for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and for the Federal Security Agency. Dr. Bradford was the first director of the Division of Adult Education of the National Education Association and served in that capacity for nearly twenty years. He edited the NEA Adult Education Bulletin and published many pioneering articles in national journals concerned with human relations. He is the author of Making Meetings Work (1977) and is a co-author of T-Group Theory and Laboratory Method: Innovations in Re-Education (1964) and The Laboratory Method of Learning and Chagning (1974). Dr. Bradford has served as a delegate to numerous international conferences, and he has received many honors, including honorary doctorates from leading universities.
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