Discusses the need to expand spatial analysis based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and display methods to encompass group decision-making processes. Descriptions of enhancements and additions to software that will enable GIS technology to be used by groups are included. Issues highlighted include implementation and design. (54 references)…

Focuses on dilemma of how counselors' organizational groups sometimes function contradictory to professional knowledge and ideals. Explores group theory, expectations of counselors, and coping strategies to articulate how counselors may better understand and manage in an uncomfortable and distressful work group. Includes 37 references. (Author/CRR)

Used Jungian psychodynamics in investigation of participative community planning to enhance interpersonal cooperation, initiated primarily to aid the economic revival of Montana. Used search conference technique with Jungian psychodynamics and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to achieve better understanding of group economic revitalization.…

Describes how a university-affiliated women's support group coped with the serious illness and subsequent death of one of its members. Both individual and group reactions are noted. Also explores the normal grieving process, pathological grief reactions, and the relationship of death to group termination. (Author)

Describes how the guitar can be used to enrich a camp experience. The guitar has an attention-drawing quality, a group-bonding potential, and a mood-setting ability that make it effective in a variety of camp situations. Discusses some common problems with guitar use at camp, and offers recommendations for effective use. (KS)

Provides camp directors with ideas for building and maintaining a sense of community among their staff, including (1) establishing a vision statement; (2) conducting team-building activities during precamp training; (3) establishing a "full value-no discount" policy that encourages caring behaviors; and (4) reinforcing a sense of…

Presents an initial formulation of a dysfunctional group dynamic in which one focal individual creates a dysfunctional group. Identifies habits of individuals and properties of systems that result in the emergence of such an individual. Presents the interactional dynamics which constitute and sustain this group dynamic and discusses three types of…

Conducted ethnographic study of unique student organization, the Young Monarchists League, formed as a student political party to run against another campus party that was then in control of student government and the student senate. Study provides glimpse of the group from within and demonstrates difficulty of placing a group within a typology.…

Describes successful effort of small women's social services agency to modify its way of operating by means of problem-solving process involving board and staff members. Notes that conflict between staff members actually involved fundamental issues facing organization in transition from informal, volunteer effort to established, service-giving…

Qualitative observations of groups in Bellcore Group Decisions Support Systems (GDSS) laboratory were analyzed for task type, anonymity, evaluative tone, overall satisfaction with meetings, motivation, and task importance. Results suggest strategies for optimizing either quantity or quality of GDSS meeting results and suggests further research for…

Similarities and differences between group dynamics of women in all-African-American and all-White therapy groups are presented and discussed. White members attended more frequently and consistently. African-American women were more responsive to others' expressions of positive emotions and anger and focused more on day-to-day issues; Whites…

Explores attitudes, values, and behavior needed to be an effective member of an action learning team, including group process skills and problem-solving approaches. (SK)

Tests an integrative model of the relationships among diversity, conflict, and performance, using a sample of 45 electronics-industry worker teams. Functional background diversity drives task conflict; multiple types of diversity drive emotional conflict. Task conflict affects task performance more favorably than does emotional conflict. (102…

The learning sequence (TLS) is an adaptable, dynamic framework for designing any learning experience. TLS consists of seven steps (sense of each other, sense of place, group norms, relevance, the experience itself, reflection, transfer) that provide a foundation, a reference point to return to when an unexpected situation arises, and a common…

Examines three theses: (1) work teams should be analyzed as object-oriented activity systems; (2) the nature of teams depends on the type of production in which they are implemented; and (3) fluid forms of collaborative work organization are displacing stable teams. (SK)