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The Potential for "Groupthink" in Autonomous Work Groups
Charles C. Manz
Department of Strategic Management and Organization, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
Henry P. Sims, Jr.
Department of Organizational Behavior, The Pennsylvania State University
As a result of current problems facing modern organizations a number of strategies have been implemented. The introduction of a work system based on autonomous work groups is one such strategy. A danger to the effectiveness of autonomous work groups is the potential for "groupthink." "Groupthink" is described and suggested to provide a useful observational behavioral category system for studying autonomous work group decision processes. Actual autonomous work group cases are presented to illustrate the relevance and the usefulness of the groupthink framework.
Human Relations, Vol. 35, No. 9,
773-784 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/001872678203500906
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