Group Development

LELAND P. BRADFORD, Ph.D., was co-founder of the National Training Laboratory in Group Development (now NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science), which he directed for twenty-five years. He served as an instructor in educational psychology at the University of Illinois and as training director for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and for the Federal Security Agency. Dr. Bradford was the first director of the Division of Adult Education of the National Education Association and served in that capacity for nearly twenty years. He edited the NEA Adult Education Bulletin and published many pioneering articles in national journals concerned with human relations. He is the author of Making Meetings Work (1977) and is a co-author of T-Group Theory and Laboratory Method: Innovations in Re-Education (1964) and The Laboratory Method of Learning and Chagning (1974). Dr. Bradford has served as a delegate to numerous international conferences, and he has received many honors, including honorary doctorates from leading universities.

• THEORY AND PRACTICE. Introduction. Group Formation and Development. A Theory of Group Development. Group Dynamic and the Individual. Functional Roles of Group Members. How to Diagnose Group Problems. Improving Decision-Making with Groups. The Case of the Hidden Agenda. Stereotypes and the Growth of Groups. The Group as a Growing Organism. Applying a Group Development Model to Managing a Class. RESEARCH. Introduction. Informal Communication in Small Groups. Task Roles and Social Roles in Problem-Solving Groups. Personal Goals and the Group's Goals for the Member. Trust and Managerial Problem Solving. Assets and Liabilities in Group Problem Solving: The Need for anIntegrative Function. Small Group Behavior: A Selective Bibliography.