Current thinking about groups: Setting the stage for new ideas

Abstract

A brief review of the literature on groups in organizatIOns should prepare you for what follows lo this book. This chapter will provide a brief status report of what we know and do not know, focuslOg on where we are now while the other chapters focus on new perspectives for thinking about groups in organizatlons. OUT review is selective and thematic. For example, we re-VIew models of group performance. OUf Intention IS not to enu-merate all possible mOdels of group performance and the corol-lary empirical evidence related to these models. Rather, we will select some representative models and then extract the basic themes ' and issues that characterize these models. We also revIew some of the empirlcai studies relevant to groups in organiza-tions. Our strategy IS to illustrate areas of empIrical interest ra-ther than to give a detailed catalogumg of findings. We focus pnmarily on literature on groups and groups 111 organIzations

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