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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459507003321

Titolo

The handbook for working with difficult groups [[electronic resource] ] : how they are difficult, why they are difficult and what you can do about it / / Sandy Schuman, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, c2010

ISBN

0-470-59412-8

1-282-54926-X

9786612549267

0-470-59411-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Collana

The Jossey-Bass business & management series

Altri autori (Persone)

SchumanSandy <1951->

Disciplina

658.3/145

Soggetti

Conflict management

Interpersonal relations

Interpersonal conflict

Teams in the workplace

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups: How They Are Difficult, Why They Are Difficult and What You Can Do About It; Contents; Preface; About the Contributors; Introduction: Working with Difficult Groups: A Conceptual Framework; Chapter One: Keeping Difficult Situations from Becoming Difficult Groups; Chapter Two: Building an External Focus: Avoiding the Difficulties on an In-grown Team; Chapter Three: The Downside of Communication: Complaining Cycles in Group Discussions; Chapter Four: Facilitating Multicultural Groups

Chapter Five: Interpersonally Hostile Work Groups: Precipitating Factors and Solutions Chapter Six: Diversity by Design: Creating Cognitive Conflict to Enhance Group Performance; Chapter Seven: Facilitating Inclusion: Study Circles on Diversity and Student Achievement; Chapter Eight: Overcoming Sources of Irrationality That Complicate Working in Decision-Making Groups; Chapter Nine: Working Without Rules: A Team



in Need of a Different Picture; Chapter Ten: Interaction Archetypes: Keys to Group Difficulty and Productivity; Chapter Eleven: Virtual Teams: Difficult in All Dimensions

Chapter Twelve: Politics of the Arts: Challenges in Working with Nonprofit Boards Chapter Thirteen: Competitive Group Interactions: Why They Exist and How to Overcome Them; Chapter Fourteen: Active Facilitation: How to Help Groups Break Through ''Mutual Stalemate''; Chapter Fifteen: Mediating History, Making Peace: Dealing with the ''Messy'' Stuff in the Conciliation Process; Chapter Sixteen: Deep Democracy: Multidimensional Process-Oriented Leadership; Chapter Seventeen: Authentic Relationships and Collective Psychological Capital

Chapter Eighteen: How Leaders Can Make Diverse Groups Less Difficult: The Role of Attitudes and Perceptions of Diversity Chapter Nineteen: The Hero's Journey: Helping Inflexible Groups-and Inflexible Facilitators-Get Unstuck; Chapter Twenty: Difficult Groups or Difficult Facilitators? Three Steps Facilitators Can Take to Make Sure They Are Not the Problem; Key Terms; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Praise for The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups  ""Beginning with a conceptual framework useful to understand effective group functioning, The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups continues with twenty chapters, each describing a common challenge a facilitator can face, examining the research available to understand the difficulty, and then offering pragmatic interventions a facilitator can use to deal with this challenge. A must-read for any group facilitator.""-David Straus, founder, Interaction Associates ""If you're looking for ways to make your team more producti