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"Groups that do not go through all the stages of group development proposed by Tuckman do not learn nor perform as well as those who do"

Would you agree with the above statement?
Illustrate your answer with relevant examples and anecdotes .
Majid Salleh

One Response

  1. TEAM WORKING / TEAM BUILDING

    Team roles and team working web sites proliferate on the web, here are a few that contain some useful content:

    http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/belbin.html
    http://www.solent.ac.uk/sbs/iconoclastic/Senior/senior.html
    http://sol.brunel.ac.uk/~jarvis/bola/teams/belbin2.html
    For an academic analysis of Belbin Team Roles and other approaches to team work.

    http://www.qualcorp.com.au/about/default.htm
    http://www.tmsdi.com/
    http://www.keirsey.com/sixteenroles.html
    http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~todds/keir-hen.html
    Alternative web sites focussing on team working.

    http://web.mit.edu/is/competency/guide/index.html
    A really useful resource for building teams.

    http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/misc/cc351.htm
    Fantastic site.

    http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/tb-basic.htm
    An excellent article giving an overview of team building and what it is.

    http://www.paradoxuk.com/research.htm
    Another article with essential coverage of team building.

    http://www.solent.ac.uk/sbs/iconoclastic/Senior/senior.html
    A fascinating paper that looks at some current practices in team building and makes some insightful criticisms of them.

    http://www.mapnp.org/library/grp_skll/teams/teams.htm
    An absolutely fantastic resource, chocker blocked with information and articles on team building. An absolute must for anyone working in this area.

    http://www.albany.edu/faculty/pm157/teaching/topics/teams.html
    A range of quite interesting articles on team working.

    http://www.mgmt.okstate.edu/faculty/eastman/mgmt5113/teams/sld001.htm
    A PowerPoint presentation on Team Building and Team Dynamics, brilliant.

    http://www.tms.com.au/tms10o.html
    An interesting article from TMS on team building and its relationship to consultancy. Good, but their questionnaire is way overpriced.

    http://www.schoonover.com/ResourceCenter/article4.htm
    Finally a downloadable article on team working, quite good.

    http://www.employeedevelopmentsolutions.com/freearticles/teambuilding.htm
    http://www.employeedevelopmentsolutions.com/freearticles/teamexperience.htm
    http://www.employeedevelopmentsolutions.com/teambuilding/teambuilding.htm
    http://www.employeedevelopmentsolutions.com/teambuilding/teambuildingroi.htm
    Articles on Team Building

    http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/ocsd-pubs/islass-hunt.html
    Basically a précis to some research on the impact of knowledge about aspects of personal learning style on team effectiveness.

    http://www.teams.org.uk/index.htm
    A gateway web site to host of team related resources, not chocker blocked but quite good.

    http://sol.brunel.ac.uk/~jarvis/bola/teams/belbin2.html
    A discourse on team roles and how the concept might be used and utilised

    http://members.tripod.lycos.co.kr/jbk/m-test.htm
    A short article on the strategic use of psychological testing within a team context.