Bruce Tuckman's theory about team development uses what four sequential rhyming words to describe the four stages of a group's progression?
Bruce Tuckman Bruce Tuckman Bruce Wayne Tuckman (November 24, 1938 - March 13, 2016) carried out research into the theory of group dynamics. In 1965, he published one of his theories called "Tuckman's stages of group development". In 1977, he added a fifth stage named Adjourning. According to the Tuckman theory of group development, there are four phases of group development: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing (and Adjourning, added in 1977). Tuckman was also known for his research on college students' procrastination and development of the Tuckman Procrastination Scale (1991). He served as professor of educational psychology at The Ohio State University, where
Group development which has served as the basis of many models of group development, described change as a three-stage process: unfreezing, change, and freezing. Bruce Tuckman reviewed about fifty studies of group development (including Bales' model) in the mid-sixties and synthesized their commonalities in one of the most frequently cited models of group development (Tuckman, 1965). Tuckman's model of group development describes four linear stages (forming, storming, norming, and performing) that a group will go through in its unitary sequence of decision making. A fifth stage (adjourning) was added in 1977 when a new set of studies were reviewed (Tuckman & Jensen,