Provides a concise overview of important conflict management concepts and strategies for those working in group settings. Presents a brief conceptual basis for understanding conflict and group memebers' behavior when in conflict, followed by specific recommendations for managing and making use of conflict in groups. (JAC)

This study examined the role of facilitators in nine virtual action learning groups. A qualitative analysis of the facilitators' interventions across all groups resulted in a typology that included group management, group process, and support interventions. A model showing the relationship among these categories proposes that effective…

Group work is clearly of value in counseling but the activities must develop more rather than less sensitivity on the part of the participants. When members get caught up in a vernacular unique unto themselves and ignore the basic meanings of feeling responses, effectiveness diminishes. (Author)

This study is concerned with behavioral and attitudinal outcomes in relation to communication subgroups performing simple problem-solving tasks while embedded in a larger, more complex organization. (LN)

The results of these experiments strongly suggest that the occurrence of behavioral contagion depended on the relative advantage an initiator's action establishes over the other members of the group. (SD)

In a behavioral study made in a small seminar group, it was found that a direct correlation existed between a person's seating position (territory) and his leadership assignment (dominance) in the group hierarchy. (RA)

A detailed plan that shows how to organize and run a one-day sales training workshop with maximum effectiveness. (Editor)

In this follow-up study, it was found that cooperation could be developed when rewards for cooperating were greater than for performing individual tasks and when subjects could discriminate between task alternatives and relative rewards. For reprints, write to the Experimental Education Unit, Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, Univ.…

An extensive analysis of the war in Indochina is made from the vantage point of interests of the three major powers involved and the local people. (CK)

The pros and cons of erotic art are discussed. (CK)