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Employee empowerment in construction: an implementation model for process improvement

Holt, Gary D.; Love, Peter E.D.; Jawahar Nesan, L. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 6 (2000) 3/4, pp. 47-51

and to budget. One approach to addressing these issues is through the concept of employee empowerment. This paper presents … an overview of the empowerment concept in the context of construction management, highlighting the hurdles, an …

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Creating the right structural fit for self‐directed teams

Attaran, Mohsen; Nguyen, Tai T. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 6 (2000) 1/2, pp. 25-33

Human resources are the most important asset of any organization. Yet most organizations continue to arrange their people in work patterns that inhibit and limit their employees’ participation. Many companies have tried to move away from a traditional rigid organizational structure to a more...

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Blending “we/me” in performance management

Brumback, Gary B. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 9 (2003) 7/8, pp. 167-173

, accountability, responsible empowerment, and performance management. An overview of the new model is then given. Among the model …

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The lack of skills: an obstacle in teamwork

Huusko, Liisa - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 12 (2006) 1/2, pp. 5-16

requisite skills. The lack of either of them may cause empowerment to get unspecified interpretations and breadth. This paper … aims to stress the need of specified empowerment both as a part of skill structure and as a part of the concept of a … skills in teams. Also finds that it is argued how unspecified empowerment can establish an obstacle to the success with teams …

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Understanding empowerment from an employee perspective

Greasley, Kay; Bryman, Alan; Dainty, Andrew; Price, Andrew - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 14 (2008) 1/2, pp. 39-55

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the various meanings of empowerment for employees from their own … perspective, the psychological dimension of empowerment and whether employees want to be empowered. Design …/methodology/approach – In order to understand how employees feel about empowerment, it is necessary to ask them directly so that one can …

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Employee empowerment and team performance

Yang, Seung‐Bum; Ok Choi, Sang - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 15 (2009) 5/6, pp. 289-301

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of employee empowerment on team performance in the context … of municipal work teams. Four different dimensions of employee empowerment are identified: autonomy, responsibility … suggests that employee empowerment programs should consider different dimensions of empowerment. At least, managers need to …

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Empowering the project team: impact of leadership style and team context

Morgan Tuuli, Martin; Rowlinson, Steve; Fellows, Richard; … - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 18 (2012) 3/4, pp. 149-175

empowerment perceptions in project teams. Design/methodology/approach – It was posited that span of control and within team … interdependence will positively and significantly influence both structural and psychological empowerment. Person …‐orientated leadership style was also expected to positively impact both structural and psychological empowerment while task orientated …

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The seven deadly sins of teambuilding

McDonald, J. Michael; Bernard Keys, J. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 2 (1996) 2, pp. 19-26

Identifies seven major errors found frequently in teambuilding programmes. Each of the errors, all management failures, are illustrated by real life episodes. Guidelines are presented for overcoming each of these deadly sins: malselection, impatience, deception, aimlessness, powerlessness,...

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Leadership theory: past, present and future

Horner, Melissa - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 3 (1997) 4, pp. 270-287

Organizations have changed over the past several decades with regard to the structuring of work methods and processes. Moving away from the traditional hierarchical design, most organizations are developing flatter, leaner structures that support a more empowered, team‐based workforce. The...

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Empowerment and team development

Hut, Jacqueline; Molleman, Eric - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 4 (1998) 2, pp. 53-66

empowerment plan and to find relevant factors which facilitate or hinder the empowerment process. The results indicate that the … nature of the work involved seem to interfere with team empowerment. …

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