Describes outdoor team‐building programmes provided by the company Team Dynamic. Satisfied clients include Europ Assistance, International Factors (a Lloyds Bank subsidiary), Alexander Howden and Transaction Technology Ltd.

Describes major changes to working practices made at British Alean Primary & Recycling Ltd. which were part of wide‐ranging cultural changes implemented by the firm in an attempt to counteract its history of strike action and the pressures of sector recession Outlines the new process of team...

Reports on the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Conference of April 1994. Manchester United is cited as a model for team building and CQI. The practice of teamwork, with commitment from top management, was a recurring theme. CQI means keeping fresh, investing new concepts and new methods of...

Examines the AA′s method of training staff by empowerment based on encouraging customer care skills, team leadership abilities and team‐building initiatives. Concludes that managers need to learn to adapt to this empowerment in order to take advantage of the “hidden talents” of staff.

This article focuses on, examines and contrasts two managerial inventories: the Spectral management theory (SMT) and the Belbin team roles inventory. The SMT inventory is one of the only approaches that involves not only a management typology, but also learning roles as well as team assessment....

Senior executive teams are often a microcosm of the culture in which they exist, while also responsible for creating that very culture. Thus, developing the senior executive team as an effective coalition is crucial to creating sustainable organization change. However, the unique composition and...

Reports results from an extensive survey of major American change programmes which revealed a set of clusters of interventions. Most typically, the change programmes involved combinations of intervention techniques. Team‐building, strategic planning, skill building and restructuring were the...

Current changes in Australian and world economic and social climates have implications for business leadership, particularly at the middle and senior management levels. Surveys business executives attending a well‐known Australian management college during 1991 and 1992 and provides an...

Points out that a significant element of an individual′s life is through groups and that there are many different aspects of groups in organizational life. Holds that the informal influence a group exerts on individual members through socialization, enforcement of norms and development of...