Group Dynamics and Team Interventions: Understanding and Improving Team Performance - Softcover

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Timothy M. Franz, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at St. John Fisher College and an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist with extensive experience in both academic leadership and organizational consulting. He has served as Chair of the Psychology Department and as Program Director and Chair of the Organizational Learning and Human Resource Development Department. Through Franz Consulting, he works directly with organizations to assess team dynamics and implement performance-improving interventions, bringing practical expertise that bridges research and real-world application.

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Research-backed assessment tools and interventions for building high-performing teams

Now in its Second Edition, Group Dynamics and Team Interventions: Understanding and Improving Team Performance provides academics and practitioners with the foundational theories and practical techniques needed to diagnose team problems and implement effective solutions. Modeled after the scientist-practitioner paradigm central to applied psychology, this edition offers validated assessment tools available for free on the author’s website, enabling immediate application of research-based methods to real organizational challenges.

Each chapter follows a consistent structure: first assessing team performance through research, then summarizing relevant theory, and finally providing three specific intervention strategies. Topics include team inputs such as member characteristics and task design, team outputs including performance and member satisfaction, data collection methods through observation and surveys, culture and inclusion assessments, and the pursuit of synergy. Readers gain both a resource guide for measurement tools and a practical toolbox of interventions.

Group Dynamics and Team Interventions serves academics teaching upper-level or Masters-level courses in group dynamics and team performance, as well as practitioners seeking structured approaches to organizational team assessment and training design. Both audiences will find the integration of theory, assessment instruments, and intervention techniques essential for understanding and improving team effectiveness.