Tuckman’s Stages of a Group Revisited
In recent years it has become fashionable for social and organizational psychologists to pooh-pooh Tuckman’s stages of a group model. Nevertheless, it remains the most cited team and group development model the world over. It’s natural to ask, what accounts for such staying power in a field so renowned for models de jour. A Recap of Tuckman’s Original Four-Stage Model Although Bruce W. Tuckman (1938-2016) was best known for his article “Developmental Sequence in Small Groups,” first published in 1965,1…