"Stop Wasting Precious Time and Money You have a complex problem at work, and you know the standard solutions: hire a consultant, enlist a superstar employee, have more meetings about it. In short, spend money and hours to dig your way out. But you've been down this road before-the so-called...

The basics of teamwork -- Teams in organizations : facts and myths -- Performance and productivity : team performance criteria and threats to productivity -- Rewarding teamwork : compensation and performance appraisals -- Internal dynamics -- Designing the team : tasks, people, and processes --...

The academic literature within social psychology focuses on describing what leaders and groups do wrong rather than what they do right. We refer to this as the “negative psychology” of leaders and groups. This chapter reviews the negative and positive research perspectives on leadership and...