This week’s topics
Theories of Team and Group Development
- Tuckman's sequential stages of group development
- Gersick's punctuated equilibrium model
- Cyclical and adaptive team lifecycle perspectives
- Contextual constraints on stage progression in modern firms
- Lecture 37: Team Formation
- Tuckman's Group Development Theory
- What is The Tuckman Model - Tuckman Team Development Model?
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Evaluate models of teambuilding or group development at an organisation.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate models of teambuilding or group development at an organisation.
Study materials
Videos
- Tuckman's Group Development Theory · YouTube · Galton College · 10 min · for registered students
- What is The Tuckman Model - Tuckman Team Development Model? · YouTube · Management Courses - Mike Clayton · 11 min · for registered students
- Tuckman's 5 Stages of Team Development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Re-forming) · YouTube · The Right Questions · 6 min · for registered students
- Team Leadership and the Tuckman Group Development Stages · YouTube · Management Courses - Mike Clayton · 8 min · for registered students
- 7 Stages of Group Development (Essential Questions for Making High-Performing Teams) · YouTube · The Right Questions · 5 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Organizational Behavior, ch. 10: Understanding and Managing Work Teams · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 295–316 · for registered students
- Organizational Behavior, ch. 9: Managing Groups and Teams · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 357–402 · for registered students
- Principles of Management, ch. 15: Managing Teams · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 455–476 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
