ABSTRACT
T-Groups are growing and developing social organisms much as any other type of problem-solving group or committee. In order for a group to attain its potential for productive work and learning, a balance, unique to itself, must be developed between two types of role-behaviors that are enacted by the members. These behaviors are (1) aimed at the task—at solving the problems that confront the group, and (2) focused on maintaining and improving the relationships that exist among the members of the group, Frequently, some members are more skillful at engaging in task behaviors while others focus their attention on enacting maintenance behaviors. Group members also behave in nongrouporiented ways. That is, they enact roles whose aim is the satisfaction of self-oriented needs which may, for the moment, take precedence over the task on which the group is working or over the needs of the group to maintain itself.
