The new self-directed work teams mastering the challenge

"The New Self-Directed Work Teams, Second Edition, explores the latest work team implementation guidelines, provides dramatic case studies of the positive impact of self-directed work teams, and discusses the surprising trends and market realities that are redefining the employer/employee relat...

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Main Author: Orsburn, Jack D.
Other Authors: Moran, Linda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York McGraw-Hill 1999
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Self-directed work teams
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Early Lessons
  • Facing the New Challenge
  • A Tool for the Twenty-First Century
  • Can Work Teams Work Here?
  • Charting the Voyage
  • Priming the Pump
  • The Ashes of Convention
  • Who's in Charge Here?
  • A Conflict of Loyalties
  • Citizen Team
  • New Horizons for Work Teams
  • Special Work-Team Issues
  • The Philosophy of Teams
  • Developing the Role of Supervisors and Managers
  • When Process Improvement is Necessary
  • Working With Unions
  • Teams and Measurement
  • Compensation Systems That Support Teams
  • Tools and Techniques for Implementing Teams
  • Employee Involvement: Alternatives to Self-Direction
  • The Steering Committee
  • The Feasibility Study
  • Developing a Mission Statement
  • Design-Team Training
  • Designing and Implementing Awareness Training
  • Workplace Analysis
  • Team Member Training
  • Manager and Supervisor Transition Training
  • Hand-Off Plans for Supervisory and Support Group Tasks
  • Team Member Role Expansion Plan
  • Peer Disciplinary Review Committee
  • Recognition and Reward Techniques
  • Mature Team-New Team Coaching Session
  • A Group Problem-Solving Process
  • Cluster meeting
  • Peer Performance Appraisal
  • Repotting Workshop
  • Diffusion Strategies.