ABSTRACT
Groups have developmental stages very much like the stages of human development. A group has to go through certain processes, which repeat themselves as a group progresses from its first meeting to a working stage of development (Bennis & Shephard, 1956; Bion, 1960; Thelen, 1954). Stages are, to some degree, predictable. Frequently, they have marker events by which one can tell that a group has reached a stage or is moving from one stage to the next. Stages imply a certain developmental task that the group has to master.
