Contents: Group Design and Team Concepts in Employee Participation: The interaction of task design and group performance strategies in determining group effectiveness, J. Richard Hackman, Kenneth R. Brousseau and Janet A. Weiss; Quality circles after the fad, Edward E. Lawler III and Susan A. Mohrman; Quality circles: the danger of bottled change, Gregory P. Shea; Leading workers to lead themselves: the external leadership of self-managing work teams, Charles C. Manz and Henry P.Sims Jr.; The new plant revolution revisited, Edward E. Lawler III; The macropolitics of organizational change: a comparative analysis of the spread of small-group activities, Robert E. Cole. Groups as Integrators - The Use of Groups to Bridge Boundaries: Bridging the boundary: external activity and performance in organizational teams, Deborah G. Ancona and David F. Caldwell; Real world R&D: jumping the product generation gap, Marco Lansiti; Managing around roles: building groups in labor negotiations, Raymond A. Friedman and Shahaf Gal; Group decision making and communication technology, Sara Kiesler and Lee Sproull; Interdisciplinary teams and the control of clients: a sociotechnical perspective, Eli Teram. Top Management Teams: Top hats and executive tales: designing the senior team, Deborah G. Ancona and David A. Nadler; Making fast strategic decisions in high-velocity environments, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt; Politics of strategic decision-making in high-velocity environments: toward a midrange theory, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and L.J. Bourgeois III; The top management team: key to strategic success, Donald C. Hambrick. Managing Diversity Within Groups: Studying intergroup relations embedded in organizations, Clayton P. Alderfer and Ken K. Smith; Learning about bilingual, multicultural organizing, Allan David Heskin and Robert A. Heffner; Differential contributions of majority and minority influence, Charlan Jeanne Nemeth; Effects of ethnic group cultural differences on cooperative and competitive behavior on a group task, Taylor H. Cox, Sharon A. Lobel and Poppy Lauretta McLeod; Cultural diversity's impact on interaction process and performance: comparing homogeneous and diverse task groups, Warren E. Watson, Kamalesh Kumar and Larry K. Michaelsen. Groups in Temporal Perspective: Marking time; predictable transitions in task groups, Connie J.G. Gersick; Effects of time limits and task types on task performance and interaction in 4-person groups, Janice R. Kelly and Joseph E. McGrath; The emergence of norms in competitive decision-making groups, Kenneth Bettenhausen and J. Keith Murnighan; The effects of group longevity on project communication and performance, Ralph Katz; Index.
