Gifted students can perform a variety of roles in groups, and it is important for career choice and satisfaction that the role chosen be a natural one. Gifted students may function best and contribute most in the role of exemplar or eccentric rather than in more traditionally conceived leadership roles. (CL)

A framegame is an informal, game-like activity that may be used within management groups to gain group consensus and problem resolution. The technique combines individual contributions and group interaction. A sample framegame structure is provided. (Author/MLF)

Results indicate that peer support networks exist on the wards of two adolescent units in two mental health centers and outside the institutions as well. Two emergent types of networks, with some overlapping, are the action-oriented and the dialogue-oriented networks, with age and gender as the factors discriminating between them. (Author/RH)

Small groups of university students each made two decisions, one using consensus, the other using majority vote. Results confirm consensus method characteristics found in community groups studies and indicate that consensus is favored as a group process. Presented at Association for Sociology in Southern Africa, Maseru, Losotho, June 1979.…

Describes personal effort in a university English as a second language class in Italy using group dynamics. Traces the same class for two years. The first year the teacher's efforts to have the class work as a whole on discussions was unsuccessful. The second year the class broke into smaller groups which proved to be a more workable procedure.…

Within the context of group behavior theories, discusses the responses of the Tuesday Night Group (TNG), an informal lobbyist organization, to California's Proposition 13. Concludes that TNG exemplified the statewide educational collective in pursuit of the collective good, general aid, and whatever private rewards the leaders feel they can…

A nursing staff support group run by a qualified leader can offer nurses mutual help in reducing job-related stress and managing conflict. (Author/SK)

Synergistic approaches to group decision making such as Nominal Group Technique and Delphi Technique offer a structured and systematic process for maximizing participation and for separating the creativity and evaluation components of the decision-making process. (Author)

States that how discourse plays a central role in social relations/power dynamics is better understood because of M. Foucault's insights on power--central to Foucault's theory concerning the power-knowledge-discourse dialectic is that for every force there is resistance. Offers a new genealogy, which better suggests how resistance might appear in…

Discusses what trainers need to know about energizing groups, adapting to groups, and improvising during instruction. (JOW)

A method for employees to conduct group learning projects is described, including development of three phases (orientation, learning, continuation) and four project types (liberal-contractual, vertical-regulated, horizontal-organic, and external-collegial). (Contains 37 references.) (SK)