Getting Behind the Scenes of Fleetwood Mac’sRumours

Abstract

The authors present an efficient and easy-to-implement experiential exercise that reinforces for students key concepts about task groups (i.e., group cohesiveness, conflict within groups, group effectiveness, group norms, and group roles). The exercise, which uses a documentary about the making of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album to demonstrate the complexity of an ongoing group that created a high-caliber product even in the face of substantial interpersonal issues, combines film and music in a new way in the management classroom.