The organizational development strategy of the W. T. Grant Company, an overlapping group teamwork approach, is directed toward accountability, planned change, individual recognition, experience-based behavior, group morale, smooth information and communication flow, and decision making. (EA)

The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) is one of several structured, small group approaches that can be used in the evaluation process. It has most often been used in needs assessment, to generate categories of potential need and/or alternative solutions to perceived specific problems. The process is based on a set of rules and uses silent idea…

Aimed at community planning groups, this guide has been developed to help clarify the role and responsibilities of a facilitator involved with community planning. The booklet maintains that a facilitator's purpose is to help a group reach its own goals and to encourage those involved in community planning to contribute positively. It explains how…

The aim of this article is to review Cronbach and Gage's discussion of the artifacts in accuracy experiments, to suggest that they are not such serious obstacles as has been thought, to outline a method of studying the problem, and to present some data showing how the method works. (Author)

The hypothesized effect of a person-group attitude similarity on one's desire for leadership status was confirmed in an attitude survey of 48 college students. (Author/KM)

Research supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health.

This booklet is about planning for citizen involvement; it suggests both a framework and a process for planning, after interest in an idea is evident but before resources for implementation are available. Experience with citizen involvement efforts suggests that successful planning has three elements. The first is a shared vision of potential:…

Negro and Caucasian secondary school counselors from the school districts of North Florida and South Georgia were given the opportunity to extend their knowledge of each other's race. The counselors were provided with actual experience, through interracial group processes, that enabled them to increase their skills in communicating with persons of…

A collection of six papers presented on separate occasions to practicing administrators deals with the need for better leadership in administration. The authors and titles of the papers are (1) R. B. Howsam, "Administering Tomorrow's Schools," (2) H. W. Kitchen, "Recent Studies Relating to Leadership," (3) Alan F. Brown, "Reactions to Leadership,"…

Twenty-five groups, each consisting of one superior and three subordinates, participated in a problem-solving exercise to test the hypotheses that subordinates who are exposed to external conflict, in conjunction with their immediate superior, will perceive their immediate superior as more credible and more homophilous than those who are not…

Many variables relate to the successful functioning of groups, but one that is fundamental is the size of the group. Part 1 of this bibliography includes a selection of studies from small-group research in experimental social psychology. Part 2 of this report represents an attempt at a rigorous review of the feelings of clinicians and counselors…

The Hill Interaction Matrix-G (HIM-G), a 72 item questionnaire, is a shorter method for the analysis of verbal interaction in small groups. Intended as a substitute for the more precise Hill Interaction Matrix Rating System (HIM-SS) this version can be rated within twenty minutes after observation of the group. A Fortran computer scoring program…

An inservice program was conducted to train 24 visiting teachers in group techniques and to furnish added guidance as they established groups of pupils with similar problems (e.g., truancy or discipline or poor self image) and worked with the parents and teachers of these pupils. Participants met in two groups for a series of 14 sessions on the…

The present study was conducted to determine whether independence produced by social support provided on one type of item in a group pressure situation would generalize to a different item on which the subject was opposed by a consensual group. Moreover, in one condition the group member providing social support varied over trials. It was…

The purpose of this study was to determine if a confident potential partisan group will tend to rely on persuasion as a means of influence, if an alienated potential partisan group will tend to rely on constraint as a means of influence, and if a neutral potential partisan group will tend to rely on inducement as a means of influence. Student…