Designing Effective Work Groups

Preface

This book is about groups in organizations. It provides a new set of theoretical perspectives about how to better understand and to design effective groups. The chapters explore determinants of work group effectiveness and strategies for designing effective groups.

Groups are exciting phenomena; they pervade our very existence. In our world of work, much of our time is spent in groups. Policy committees, coordinating committees, staff meetings, loan committees, new product committees, labor management committees, quality circles, and advisory groups are only a few of the group assignments people find themselves in in organizations. Such ...