In a world where there are books that show the proper way to pitch a baseball, on how to build better relationships, on self improvement, studies on any number of topics, why wouldn't there be any for something so essential and important to our lives? For this reason, it would be a good idea to observe, study and write about groups.
             We must look into our lives to get a better perspective on how important this issue is and the impact of those studying this topic. We live in a time where companies are forever merging, in the process of globalization, and people are stretching to various reaches of the world via the Internet. To tackle these demands of expansion, we are looking to team-based efforts. "By the year 2000 some estimate that 50 percent or more of American corporations will use work teams in production and service"(Galanes, Adams, Brilhart 5). Groups however do not just affect these times. Groups make up a great deal of our interactions. Be it our social cliques, or our work teams, we are forced as human beings to interact in group settings.
             It is also worth the effort and time to study groups because people participate in them throughout their lives. We are animals that are driven to form packs and social relationships on many different levels. "We humans are social beings with powerful genetic needs to belong to small social groups. We need to affiliate with others of our kind, just as do many other mammals"(Galanes, Adams, Brilhart 5). This is the norm. We even have psychological terms for those who are deviant from this need. They are socially dysfunctional and are recluses. Some "believe that the small group is the most important social formation: 'From birth to death, small groups are interwoven into the fabric of our lives'"(Galanes, Adams, Brilhart 5). How then would it be possible in a world where we scrutinize the smallest of details that something of ...