Groups That Work (and Those That Don't): Creating Conditions for Effective Teamwork

Hackman, Richard J, and Hackman, J Richard, Ph.D. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1555421873 / ISBN 13: 9781555421878

Published by Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1989

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 544 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Jossey-Bass Management. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. HC 257.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0034511

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Groups That Work (and Those That Don't): Creating Conditions for Effective Teamwork
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555421873
• ISBN 13: 9781555421878
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

About this title

Synopsis

Explores the design and leadership of groups, providing detailed descriptions of twenty-seven diverse work groups--including task forces, top management groups, production teams, and customer service teams--to offer insights into what factors affect group productivity, and what leaders and group members can do to improve work group effectiveness.

About the Author

J. RICHARD HACKMAN is Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois in 1966, and taught at Yale University until 1986. He is coauthor of several books, including Work Redesign (1980).