Organizational Change and Development by Pearsona

Chapter

5

Management of Group

Processes

After reading this chapter, you will be able to understand that how groups are formed, deliberately

or spontaneously, and inuence the general functioning of an organization. Today, more emphasis is

being given on understanding of the formation and maintenance of groups in an organization as the

functioning of an organization actually depends on the functioning of organizational members, who

more often than not are in groups. But just putting a number of assorted individuals together does not

make a group or team. It is never the arithmetic summation of individual skills or efforts, and a lot of

subtle ...