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Mueller, Jeffrey R. – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This paper reviews and integrates best practices for online teamwork for students and instructors from current and classical literature as well as the author's own six years of online teaching experience (over 40 online courses). A qualitative reflection of six graduate and six undergraduate courses in management, human resource management and…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Fundamental Concepts, Electronic Learning, Best Practices

Wyatt, Susan – Journal of Experiential Education, 1997
Proposes a framework for using experiential programs to facilitate community building through individual and organizational learning. Discusses single-loop and double-loop learning by individuals and organizations, use of reflection and metaphors, program design, and dialog as an approach to creating shared meaning. Contains 21 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Group Dynamics, Metaphors, Models

Schermerhorn, John R., Jr. – Group and Organization Studies, 1981
Summarizes the open questions that must be answered by researchers if practioners of interorganizational development are to have adequate planning-and-action guidelines. Suggests the questions should help practitioners become more sensitive to potential action considerations that may require special thought and attention until a firmer knowledge…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Evaluation Criteria, Group Dynamics, Guidelines
Hosty, Maureen – Camping Magazine, 1996
A. J. Romiszowski developed a schematic model for analyzing performance problems. Whether a problem lies with staff members or their environment is determined first. Staff problems are grouped according to past performance. Work environment problems include work methods, management systems, and job organization. Model emphasizes flexibility and…
Descriptors: Camping, Group Dynamics, Job Performance, Leadership

Sundstrom, Eric; And Others – American Psychologist, 1990
Explores applications of work teams and proposes an analytic framework for team effectiveness. Presents the following applications: (1) advice and involvement; (2) production and service; (3) projects and development; and (4) action and negotiation. Depicts team effectiveness as interdependent with organizational context, boundaries, and team…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Industrial Psychology, Job Performance, Labor Relations

Graham, Charles R. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2002
Reviews the literature related to creating effective learning groups in face-to-face and virtual environments for distance education using research from cooperative learning, computer-mediated communication, organizational development, and group dynamics. Highlights include creating the groups, structuring the learning activities, and facilitating…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Conventional Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education

French, Wendell L. – Group and Organization Studies, 1982
By the early 1960s, organization development had emerged largely from the applied behavioral sciences and had three major stems: the invention of the T-group and innovations in the application of laboratory training insights to complex organizations; the invention of survey feedback technology; and the emergence of action research. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Role, Attitude Measures, Feedback

DeMeuse, Kenneth P.; Liebowitz, S. Jay – Group and Organization Studies, 1981
Reviewed published studies (N=36) of an organization development and team building strategy, focusing on research designs, sample sizes, dependent variables, and the length of time the intervention was investigated. Results indicated team building appeared to be an intervention with great potential for improving employee attitudes and…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Group Dynamics, Intervention
A Catalogue of Products That Can Aid Schools in Doing Organization Development and Needs Assessment.
Hoffman, Cynthia K. – 1979
The products in this catalogue are programs and publications designed to help schools with staff development programs that are aimed at improving organizational functioning and communication (organization development), or at conducting needs assessment. The organization development products and publications reviewed are designed to help schools…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Catalogs, Communication Skills, Educational Needs

Daley, Nelda Knelson; Kobak, Sue Ella – Appalachian Journal, 1990
Analyzes role of "familiar outsider," the "transplant" reformer who rejects personal power while aiding community. Focuses on four outsiders assisting Virginia town's developing commission. Details relationship and leadership problems among commission, technical assistant, and community leaders during development of sewing…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Action, Community Development, Community Leaders
Fryer, Thomas W., Jr.; Lovas, John C. – 1990
Designed to help community college leaders direct the power of decision making and communication to fulfill the institution's mission, this book draws from on-site interviews and a survey of hundreds of community college leaders to identify and describe models of effective governance. "Leadership in governance" is defined as the creation of…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges, Decision Making

Conyne, Robert K., Ed. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1982
Contains nine articles relating group work technology to organization development. Overviews group work and organization development and discusses human resource development. Reports on group process consultation and describes the Nominal Group technique in organizational needs assessment. Discusses group dynamics in an industrial setting and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consultants, Counselor Role, Evaluation Methods