Six participants each from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya participated in a workshop to search for solutions to the border disputes between Somalia and her two neighbors. This pilot venture, a mixture of successes and failures, can provide the basis for improvement and extension of the concept. Followed by critical comments by John E. Harr, Otto…

Examines response to group pressure involving different judgments and social situations. One bipolar dimension included conformity and anticonformity, the other, conformity and independence. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. (RW)

An excerpt from "La classe de conversation" ("The Conversation Class") by Pierre Burney which has appeared at regular intervals in various issues of "Le Francais dans le Monde." (DS)

Describes relationship between job and family roles, beginning with analysis of economic resources accruing from some types of employment which enable man to function in a family. Concludes with analysis of how right kind of occupation improves communication skills necessary for marital interaction. Stresses inter-dependence of roles and…

This article collates some of the existing notions about the outcomes of organizational activity into an output analysis framework and implications for organizational practice are drawn. (Author/MF)

A group experience with neighborhood workers in a black, ghetto community action program, with a white psychiatrist as group leader focuses on the definition of the task of consultation, derivation of mutually agreed upon goals, evolution of the group, and issues dealt with during the experience. (Author)

Describes the crisis in student interracial relations and its partial resolution through sensitivity group intervention which preceded the choice of an integrated cast and staff by students for their student play. (JM)

Elaborates a three-fold typology to show several ways the administrator's decisions can be influenced by subordinates. (Author/MF)

Investigation supported in part by a research grant from the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration.

Establishing a human resource development (HRD) program for HRD practitioners frequently results in problems of organizational change. The author has applied the theories of three contemporary sociologists--Talcott Parsons, Lewis Coser, and Peter Blau--to a hypothetical case study of an HRD consulting firm faced with developing its own human…

Presents a format for conducting effective training workshops using socioprocess groups as the specific training modality. The inservice program for juvenile court workers was designed to develop awareness of the basic principles of interpersonal relationships and to develop skills in using them. (JAC)

Describes several kinds of mutual help groups and two ways to initiate them: (1) through conferences, and (2) through short-term training programs. A substantial need continues for mutual help groups in an era of reduced professional and consumer resources. Research is needed to document their extensiveness, impact and longevity. (JAC)