For mote than 20 years, Fred Fiedler and his associate
have been exploring the influence of people's behaviors on group effectiveness
(1967, 1969 1973). Recent information reported by adams (1985) focuses on how
individuals with a task or product orientation to a work group differ from those
mote concerned with the process or people or people dimension of group life. Fiedler is
interested in how such differences in an individual's orientation to the group may
influence effectiveness