"Exploring Management, Seventh Edition, began, grew, and found life and form in its first five editions over many telephone conversations, conference calls, e-mail exchanges, and face-to-face meetings. It has since matured and been refined as a seventh edition through the useful feedback...

The authors review team research that has been conducted over the past 10 years. They discuss the nature of work teams in context and note the substantive differences underlying different types of teams. They then review representative studies that have appeared in the past decade in the context...