ABSTRACT
Group dynamics lay at the core of Lewin's social science and model of planned change. However, experience in leadership training, in changing of food habits, work production, criminality, alcoholism, prejudices-all seem to indicate that it is usually easier to change individuals formed into a group than to change any one of them separately. While the effect on aggression holds implications both for politics and for healthy group dynamics, the effect on productivity is perhaps of even more importance in terms of implications for planned change and organization development. The organization of work, like any other aspect of the organization of the autocratic group, is based on the leader. In the democratic group, “acceptance” of the group goal by the member means taking it over and making it one’s own goal.
