ABSTRACT
McGrath (1984) has developed a taxonomy of group tasks that distinguishes conceptual (or cognitive) tasks from behavioral (or conative) tasks, and cooperative from conflictoriented tasks. Using these distinctions, plus the differences between planning and execution, McGrath created a circumplex of eight distinct types of tasks:
O Planning: creating plans for action. O Creativity: generating ideas for later use. O Intellective: solving problems with an identifiable
correct answer. O Decision-making: solving problems where there is
no objectively correct answer.
