The Chicago Center for the Study of Groups and Organizations (CCSGO), an affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI) is dedicated to advancing the understanding of the covert processes affecting leadership and authority within groups and social systems, with particular attention to:

• Experiencing the ways in which covert processes in groups and organizations may impede or facilitate the accomplishment of work and goals that affect one’s ability to lead and to follow.
  
• Studying the effects on leadership and followership of individual differences, such as race, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and age
  
• Learning about the multiple ways in which you can more successfully take up your roles as leaders and followers, exercise authority and responsibility, and enhance your organization’s effectiveness.