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Tziner, Aharon – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Presents a theoretical model to account for the transformation of socioemotional group cohesiveness into instrumental group cohesiveness and vice versa, as a result of external or internal stimuli operating on the group, suggesting that instrumental versus socioemotional types are a result of the static nonlongitudinal approach to group research.…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Unity, Organizational Change, Systems Approach

McClure, Bud A. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1990
Describes characteristics of immature, or regressive groups, including avoidance of conflict, abdication of responsibility, and psychic numbness; and characteristics of mature, or generative groups, including group transcendence. Examines the notion of group mind and concludes that the evolution of mind is dependent on the group's psychological…
Descriptors: Conflict, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Group Experience

Conyne, Robert K. – 1983
Student organization development (SOD) is an emerging technology for conducting intentional student development through positive alteration of student organizations. One model (CORE) for conceptualizing SOD is in use at the Student Development Center of the University of Cincinnati. The CORE model to SOD is comprised of three concentric rings, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Group Dynamics, Group Experience

Conyne, Robert K. – 1983
This document presents a model for student organization development, defining in detail the central conditions for the CORE model (Cohesion, Organization, Resourcefulness, and Energy); and provides an assessment tool, the CORE Conditions Checklist, for checking the extent to which these conditions are present in organizations. The CORE model is…
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation Methods, Extracurricular Activities, Group Dynamics