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Download full textBrown, Michael H. – 1987
This document presents a case history of an 80-hour consulting contract undertaken in 1984 whereby a human resources consultant provided training in team building, communication skills, and creative problem solving to the management team of the Water Revenue Department (WRD) of the government of the District of Columbia. The troubled history of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Communication Skills, Consultants, Human Resources
Glenn, Christine G.; And Others – 1981
This paper focuses on the systems approach in family therapy and attempts to further the development of this approach by defining its assumptions and delineating the relationship between the assumptions and their operationalization in assessment and therapy. The first section identifies two basic assumptions of a systemic approach, i.e., that the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Family Attitudes
Peer reviewedLane, Irving M.; And Others – Group and Organization Studies, 1981
Presents both logical and empirical evidence to illustrate that the conventional scoring algorithm for ranking tasks significantly underestimates the initial level of group ability and that Slevin's alternative scoring algorithm significantly overestimates the initial level of ability. Presents a modification of Slevin's algorithm which authors…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Group Dynamics
