There are the ruthless pursuit of efficiency, in the form of business reengineering in the 1980s, rationalisation in the 1990s, and aggressive outsourcing in the 2000s – all these stemmed from the combined impact of changes in technology, globalisation, competitive pressures, unpredictable socio-political and economic factors, which together with other factions have all altered the world of work and the ways we organise work groups.