Groups in Context

Name: Groups in Context
SKU: 9780762305117
Price: 170.99 USD

Margaret Ann Neale|E. Mannix|R. Wageman

Hardback

9780762305117

23 September 1999

$170.99

Emerald

Description
Contents

This book comprises the work of scholars who gathered in May, 1998, at a conference held at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Administration. The conference was part of an ongoing series presenting cutting edge research on teams. Presented first, are those articles that address particular macro aspects of team context and their influences on team process and effectiveness and ultimately their effectiveness as performing units. The following chapters address: how the organizational context shapes the timing of behavior in teams; process outcome and the effects of organizational performance on top management teams; group process and the nature of contextual features; and, conditions under which working teams actively manage their external environments and consequences of those actions. The work concludes with an overview of the multiple ways that contexts affect and are affected by group behavior, helping the reader to organize and to extend their understanding of contextual phenomena.

List of contributors. Preface (R. Wageman). We can't get there unless we know where we are going: direction setting for knowledge work teams (S.G. Cohen et al.). Cycles and synchrony: the temporal role of context in team behavior (D. Ancona, Chee-Leong Chong). Cause or effect? An investigation of the relationship between top management team group dynamics and organizational performance (R.S. Peterson et al.). Predicting process improvement team performance in an automotive firm: explicating the roles of trust and empowerment (G.M. Spreitzer et al.). Fairness norms and the potential for mutual agreements involving majority and minority groups (J.T. Jost, L. Ross). Groupthink and preparedness for the Loma Prieta earthquake: a social identity maintenance analysis of causes and preventions (A.R. Pratkanis, M.E. Turner). Group cognition and creativity in organizations (A.B. Hargadon). Unwrapping the work group: how extra-organizational context affects group behavior (R. Lacey, D. Gruenfeld). A safe harbor: social psychological conditions enabling boundary spanning in work teams (A. Edmondson). The antecedents of team competence: toward a fine-grained model of self-managing team effectiveness (V.U. Druskat, D.C. Kayes). Thinking differently about context (J.R. Hackman).