To investigate the effects of work group structure on measures of organizational behavior, questionnaire data from employees in a department characterized by complex, unstable work group structure and variable supervisory reporting relationships were compared with data from similar employees in two departments characterized by stable work group…

The purpose of this paper was to measure small groups at various stages of their development and observe the effects of changes in group process on emergence of role types and the impact these roles have on group membership as a whole. Most small group measuring instruments have been built around a task-leader or socio-emotional leader dichotomy.…

The results of this study indicated the extent to which the group structure of a sixth grade class was dependent on personality characteristics in the formation of acceptance and rejection patterns. (RC)

Data from 12 rural community problem-solving groups working with extension agents were studied to explore the relationship between group and individual growth and (1) agent self-actualization and (2) certain group trait variables. Individual and group growth was found to be highly related to small group size, high ratings of problem importance,…

Suggests a taxonomy of the grass roots movement and gives a general descriptive over view of the 60 groups studied with respect to origin, constituency, size, funding, issues, and ideology. (Author/AM)

Reports the relationship between the teachers' participation in organizational decision-making and the perceived influence attributed to their administrative superiors, the principal and the superintendent. (Author)

Examined were factors of sex, social class, family size, ordinal position, and school class composition (blue or white collar) on the originality of 309 male and 311 female third grade children in a suburban and an urban district. (MC)

Presents lesson characteristics that describe inquiry lessons, which are designed to teach students how to learn to think for themselves and develop their own decision making powers. (RK)

Observation of the authority structure at Xanadu, a free school, revealed that students rejected direction early in the first year of their enrollment, then discussed in evaluation papers the need for authority from the staff in averting the very problems that arose. (JB)

Study result with Negro and Caucasian males of high and low socioeconomic status indicate that generally the respondents reflected a high level of success orientation, a moderate distribution of ambition reduction and a less pervasive level of the deviant orientation (acquiring desired ends by illicit means). Such observation appears to reflect…

The purpose of group counseling was to promote new social learning involving identification with other group members, leading to expanded field perception and insight into the projection of thoughts, feelings and motives onto others. (Author)

This essay explores a kind of adaptation, referred to as defenseive structuring, that recurs with great regularity among groups that perceive themselves as exposed to environmental stress of long duration with which they cannot cope directly and aggressively." (Author)