Group Management

This work studies current issues in the organization of management groups, including: quality circles, self-managing work teams, group decision-making and communication technology, designing the senior team, intergroup relations in organizations and cultural diversity's impact on interaction and performance. Among the topics covered, are the interaction of task design and group performance strategies in determining group effectiveness; quality circles "after the fad"; the macropolitics of organizational change; the effects of ethnic group cultural differences on cooperative and competitive behaviour on a group task; the emergence of norms in competitive decision-making groups; and the effects of group longevity on project communication and performance.