ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how Group relations (GR) is relevant in role clarification, leadership development, organisational and environmental transformation and its impact on social issues, its influence in the research and evaluation, in clinical work, and in educational and professional development. GR is a method of study and training in the way people perform their roles in groups and systems. These can be work groups, teams, or organisations, or less formal social groups such as faiths, race, and gender groups. Roles are sets of expected behaviours, rights, and obligations as conceptualised in boundary situations that are concerned with mediating relations between inside and outside. It is commonly understood that the normative primary task of the group requires of people their contribution of activities, their roles. The roles that individuals bring to the task belong inside the boundary of the enterprise; the individuals who provide the roles belong outside.
