1971/07/01 by André L. Delbecq, Andrew H. Van de Ven · 6 citations
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Engineering · Psychology · #Adaptation (eye) #Business #Community Development and Social Impact #Computer science #Engineering #Engineering management #Evaluation and Performance Assessment #Identification (biology) #Key (lock) #Knowledge management #Management #Process (computing) #Process management #Psychology #Resource (disambiguation) #Task (project management) #Task group
paper · doi:10.1177/002188637100700404
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This article sets forth a group process approach useful for practicing administrators charged with a program development task. More specifically, meeting formats are suggested for involving the following critical reference groups in successive phases of program development: (1) clients (consumers or users) and first-line staff, in problem exploration; (2) external resource people and internal specialists, in knowledge exploration; (3) key administrators and resource controllers, in priority development and local adaptation; (4) organizational staff, in program proposal building; and (5) all constituencies, in final approval and evaluation designs. The meeting formats were suggested by contemporary small-group theory; the sequencing of the involvement of reference groups came from studies of community planning.