A collaborative approach to the development of lower‐level management skills was devised and put into practice at a teaching hospital. Beginning as an open forum in which attendees questioned an instructor, it progressively evolved into a controlled “free‐for‐all” in which each...

Examines, in a laboratory experiment, the effect of reward interdependence and budget difficulty, as components of incentive structure, on characteristics of group performance expectations. Demonstrates that differential reward interdependence allows groups potentially to apply differential...

Natural workgroups are an important if rarely acknowledged aspect of job design; their distinctive features reflect a radical notion of worker choice and task structuring based on “natural” work methods, i.e. common‐sense understandings of how tasks should be accomplished. The article...

Investigates the effects of day of the week on work group performance at a contractor‐operated, government‐owned facility that tests aerospace propulsion systems. Focuses on individual employees′ contributions towards group performance and excludes the effects of mechanical failures and...

Attempts to demonstrate how a shared vision amongst group members is developed. Endeavours to understand the process through which members of a multicultural group, Asian and Western, develop and sustain a consensus, the way they interpret, give meaning and make sense of what went on during the...

States the need for all managers into the next millennium to innovate and respond in new ways. Sets out a way in which managers can act differently in order to create a creative climate within their work groups. Sets this practical approach in the context of research carried out by Goran Ekvall...

This paper highlights the opportunity to investigate relations between the marketing and sales departments of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies. Drawing on empirical results from social psychology, the authors develop a framework for exploring the social psychological causes and...

Documents a case study of an urban group lending programme run by the bank BancoSol in La Paz, Bolivia. The lending programme has proved capable of sustaining a set of widely accessible lending relations with a large number of self‐employed microentrepreneurs in Bolivia. In documenting this...

The product innovation and development process has come under increasing scrutiny over recent years, and this has lead to the general recognition that innovation is vital for business growth, but that the product development process in many companies is still far from as effective as it needs to...