Designing Effective Work Groups

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.

1. Current Thinking About Groups: Setting the Stage for New Ideas Paul S. Goodman, Elizabeth C. Ravlin, Linda Argote 2. Group Decision Making and Group Effectiveness in Organizations Richard A. Guzzo 3. Leading Groups in Organizations J. Richard Hackman, Richard E. Walton 4. Impact of Task and Technology on Group Performance Paul S. Goodman 5. Groups Under Contrasting Management Strategies Richard E. Walton, J. Richard Hackman 6. Intergroup Relations in Organizations Jeanne M. Brett, Jorn Kjell Rognes 7. Research on Work Group Effectiveness: An Anthropological Critique Helen B. Schwartzman 8. Responsibility and Effort in Organizations Bibb Latanea 9. Thought Experiments and the Problem of Sparse Data in Small-Group Performance Research James H. Davis, Norbert L. Kerr 10. Reexamining Our Thoughts Concerning Groups in Organizations L. L. Cummings 11. Studying Groups at Work: Ten Critical Needs for Theory and Practice Joseph E. McGrath