Book description
Provides ways to design, manage, and maintain more useful work groups--including labor-management committees, staff meetings, advisory groups, and policy committees. In eleven original chapters, reviews current knowledge about groups and explores new directions for understanding them and improving their effectiveness.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- The Authors
- 1: Current Thinking About Groups: Setting the Stage for New Ideas
- 2: Group Decision Making and Group Effectiveness in Organizations
- 3: Leading Groups in Organizations
- 4: Impact of Task and Technology on Group Performance
- 5: Groups Under Contrasting Management Strategies
- 6: Intergroup Relations in Organizations
- 7: Research on Work Group Effectiveness: An Anthropological Critique
- 8: Responsibility and Effort in Organizations
- 9: Thought Experiments and the Problem of Sparse Data in Small-Group Performance Research
- 10: Reexamining Our Thoughts Concerning Groups in Organizations
- 11: Studying Groups at Work: Ten Critical Needs for Theory and Practice
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Product information
- Title: Designing Effective Work Groups
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 1999
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780470623893
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