ABSTRACT
Groups provide an important context for work activity. Boards of directors, management committees, planning groups, project teams, task forces, quality circles, safety committees and autonomous work groups are but a few of the many different kinds of group within which organizational members have to work. Handy (1985) estimates that, on average, managers spend 50 per cent of their working day in one sort of group or another and senior managers can spend 80 per cent.
