GROUP MODEL-BUILDING - ADDING MORE SCIENCE TO THE CRAFT

This article discusses the issue of making group model building interv entions more of a science than an art by outlining a number of require ments of a research program. Important elements that are discussed are the various goals of group model building interventions and the compo nents and scripts of an intervention. Then the problem of theory devel opment is discussed, together with a number of hypotheses which the au thors suggest need more investigation. The article also discusses issu es related to the selection of an appropriate research design, as well as a number of thorny measurement problems. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Syst. Dyn. Rev. 13, 187-201, 1997.