Effective Group Problem Solving: How to Broaden Participation, Improve Decision Making, and Increase Commitment to Action (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Fox, William M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555420338 ISBN 13: 9781555420338

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1987

Synopsis

Provides an integrated, easy-to-use approach that improves efficiency, minimizes interpersonal conflicts, and produces results. Explains how the Improved Nominal Group Technique can help eliminate many common problems that conventional group procedures often cannot solve effectively.

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About the Author

William M. Fox is a professor emeritus of management at the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Florida and a consultant. He received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in organizational behavior from the University of Michigan in 1948 and his Ph.D. degree in organization and management theory from Ohio State University in 1954. Fox has conducted leadership studies for the Office of Naval Research, studied Japanese management as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar, and served as a management consultant to the air force. He has published several books and numerous articles. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow in the Academy of Management. Bill was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Finnish School of Economics and the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland in 1958. He was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar studying Japanese management and lecturing at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan in 1974. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and was elected a Fellow in the Academy of Management. Additional book publications: He was editor of READINGS IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT FROM FORTUNE, Henry Holt, 1957 (Revised Edition, 1963); author of THE MANAGEMENT PROCESS: AN INTEGRATED FUNCTIONAL APPROACH, Richard Irwin, 1963 (a finalist for the 1963 McKinsey Foundation Book Award; an Italian edition was published in 1969); AMERICAN VALUES DECLINE: WHAT WE CAN DO, Bookman, 2005; BEHAVIOR MODELING TRAINING FOR DEVELOPING SUPERVISORY SKILLS, (Instructor and Trainee Manuals, 2009), Information Age Publishing. Co-Principal Investigator for P developing effectiveness criteria for the evaluation of research activity, NASA, 1970-72. Principal Investigator for Longitudinal Studies On The Effects of Leader Behavior, US Office of Naval Research, 1970-74.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 1555420338
• ISBN 13: 9781555420338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203