Toward a group facilitation technique for project teams

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-309

  Witte, Erich H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facilitation techniques for groups; Group decision making; Group performance; Project teams; Theory construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347402433     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207078694     Document Type: Article

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