Looking back, moving forward : a review of group and team-based research / edited by Margaret A. Neale, Elizabeth A. Mannix.

Includes bibliographical references.

Studying dynamics within groups -- Leadership in small groups and teams: toward a theory of group leadership -- Micropolitics: a new model of status hierarchies in teams -- The far-reaching effects of power: at the individual, dyadic, and group levels -- The nature of collective reactions to potential transgressions -- Managing conflict in groups and teams: conflict about conflict -- Political correctness and group compositions: a research agenda -- Delusions of homogeneity? Reinterpreting the effects of group diversity -- Challenges and opportunities for group learning and group learning researchers -- Technology and teams: the next ten years -- Engaging groups and organizational decisions: a social dilemma perspective -- Time pressure, performance, and productivity -- Toward better understanding of interaction dynamics in multicultural teams: a status perspective -- When identities, interests, and information collide: how subgroups create hidden profiles in teams.

This fifteenth volume reviews the current status of many of the major themes that this series has explored. In each chapter, we challenged the authors to provide a succinct review of a particular area while maintaining the culture of this series by suggesting new directions and interesting questions to pursue. The authors, many of whom were thematic editors as young assistant professors, responded with explorations in the areas of dynamics within groups, leadership, micropolitics, power, ethics, conflict, political correctness, diversity, group learning, technology, engagement, time pressure, culture, and intergroup processes - all reflecting the unique take on these topics within the context of groups and teams.

Margaret Neale's research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. Her work has extended judgment and decision-making research from cognitive psychology to the field of negotiation. In particular, she studies cognitive and social processes that produce departures from effective negotiating behavior. Within the context of teams, her work explores aspects of team composition and group process that enhance the ability of teams to share the information necessary for learning and problem solving in both face-to-face and virtual team environments. Professor Neale's major research interests include bargaining and negotiation, distributed work groups, and team composition, learning, and performance.

Professor Elizabeth Mannix's research and teaching interests include effective performance in managerial teams, diversity, power and alliances, negotiation and conflict, and organizational change and renewal. Recently, she has been studying the effects of power in diverse teams.