The Student's Guide to Successful Project Teams [Paperback]

It is common for undergraduate and graduate students across various disciplines to be placed on teams and assigned group project research reports and presentations which require them to work together. For example a psychology course requires teams to develop, conduct, analyze and present the result of their experiments, a marketing course requires student project teams to prepare marketing plans and present their conclusions, and an organizational behavior course forms teams for the purpose of researching the cultures of different organizations and making presentations about their findings. This new guidebook will be a core text on how to help student project teams confront and successfully resolve issues, tasks and problems.  Sections include conceptual material, stories and illustrations, and exercises.  Students and teachers in Organizational Behavior, Management, Marketing and all psychology disciplines will find this book of interest.

1. Dimensions of the Student Project Team. 2. The Learning Team. 3. Team Formation. 4. Team Roles and Responsibilities. 5. Influence and Decision Making.  6. Process Improvements. 7. Useful Conflicts. 8. Full Engagement. 9. Final Examinations.  Appendix. Project Team Development Exercises

Bill Kahn has produced a wonderful book that I've waited a long time for. Helping students work better in teams is a challenge I face every time I teach. Kahn has produced just the book to give students insights they need to understand and negotiate the predictable vicissitudes of team life. The result should be teams that frustrate less, learn more, and get more done. -Lee Bolman, The University of Missouri-Kansas City, Bloch School of Business and Public Administration

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