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Designing effective work groups
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The authors provides ways to design, manage, and maintain more useful work groups, including labor management committees, staff meetings, advisory groups, and policy committees, and reviews current knowledge about groups and explores new directions for understanding them and improving their effectiveness.Abstract:
Provides ways to design, manage, and maintain more useful work groups--including labor-management committees, staff meetings, advisory groups, and policy committees. In eleven original chapters, reviews current knowledge about groups and explores new directions for understanding them and improving their effectiveness.read more
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