The course will focus on relevant social, personality, and cognitive psychological theories and models used to create and maintain effective work groups and teams in organizations. Students will become familiar with current theories and practices concerning composition, size, types of tasks, resources, leadership diversity, roles, goals, organizational factors, interpersonal processes (including decision-making), training, interventions (including conflict resolution), to help ailing groups get back on track, commitment and other elements that contribute to the construction of effective teams.