"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
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.