Bruce Tuckman's Five Stages Of Group Development

It was American psychologist, Bruce Tuckman, who, in 1965, came up with a model of organizational development that is now known as the Tuckman's Stages of Group Development. There, he enumerated what he considered to be the five stages in the life of a typical organization, group or team. His five stages, in chronological order, are: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. This theory has been put to test by numerous researchers over the decades and has been proven to be true – or at least closer to the truth than any rival theory. These five sequential chapters of group dynamics have been found to be inescapable in the life of any organization. This time-honoured framework basically stipulates that people come together to …show more content…
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