Designing Effective Work Groups

PAUL S. GOODMAN is professor of industrial administration and psychology at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. He is author of Absenteeism, Change in Organizations, and New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness, all published by Jossey-Bass.

• 1. Current Thinking About Groups: Setting the Stage for New IdeasPaul S. Goodman, Elizabeth C. Ravlin, Linda Argote2. Group Decision Making and Group Effectiveness in OrganizationsRichard A. Guzzo3. Leading Groups in OrganizationsJ. Richard Hackman, Richard E. Walton4. Impact of Task and Technology on Group PerformancePaul S. Goodman5. Groups Under Contrasting Management StrategiesRichard E. Walton, J. Richard Hackman6. Intergroup Relations in OrganizationsJeanne M. Brett, Jorn Kjell Rognes7. Research on Work Group Effectiveness: An Anthropological CritiqueHelen B. Schwartzman8. Responsibility and Effort in OrganizationsBibb Latanea9. Thought Experiments and the Problem of Sparse Data in Small-Group Performance ResearchJames H. Davis, Norbert L. Kerr10. Reexamining Our Thoughts Concerning Groups in OrganizationsL. L. Cummings11. Studying Groups at Work: Ten Critical Needs for Theory and PracticeJoseph E. McGrath