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Team Governance:Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to theoutcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if theteam manager has some information about team members, interventions that the managerundertakes in order to assure...

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Interactions Between Workers and the Technology ofProduction: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact witheach other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect theproductivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather thanrelying on behavioral...

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Incentives and managerial experience in multi-task teams: Evidence from within an firm

Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2008

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced Scorecard, was implemented in all branches in one division, but not in another...

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More or Less Than Give or Take: Manifested Attitudes to Inter-Partner Learning in Collaboration

Huxham, Chris; Hibbert, Paul - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London>

This paper seeks to explain why some subsidiaries are isolated from the knowledge transfer activities within multinational corporations. Applying a new theoretical and empirical approach to intra-firm knowledge transfers, we argue that differences in learning capabilities and in-group-out-group...

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GANZHEITLICHEPRODUKTIONSSYSTEME (GPS)

Braßler, Axel - Rationalisierungs- und Innovationszentrum der Deutschen … - 2008

Das wohl bekannteste ganzheitliche Produktionssystem ist unterder Chiffre Toyota Produktionssystem bekannt geworden. Vielegroße Unternehmen haben sich daran angelehnt und durchBerücksichtigung ihrer eigenen individuellen Gegebenheitenneue, innovative Produktionssysteme hervorgebracht. So...

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GRUPPENENTWICKLUNG

Hardwig, Thomas; Hentrich, Jörg - Rationalisierungs- und Innovationszentrum der Deutschen … - 2007

Vor mehr als zehn Jahren Anfang der 90er hat dieDiskussion um Lean Production in zahlreichen Unternehmenzur Einführung von Gruppen- oder Teamarbeitgeführt. Fragt man heute dort nach, was aus Gruppenarbeitgeworden ist, bekommt man zwei unterschiedlicheAntworten...

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Factors Affecting Multifunctional TeamsIn Innovation Processes

Shen, Xin - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2002

well-structured process gives the possibility to implement effective multifunctional teamwork. Meanwhile, multifunctional … teamwork helps to optimise and accomplish the innovation process.Organizational support is necessary to achieve effective … teamwork. Designing or changing the organizational structures for multifunctional collaboration is an important issue. Changing... …

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USING MICROBLOGGING IN A WORK PLACE CONTEXT

Meyer, Paul; Swatman, Paul; Dibbern, Jens - Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik <Bern> - 2009

Twitter is the new Web 2.0 hype in the media. Techies, politicians, family members and many more use Twitter to keep in touch with their interest groups, their voters or their beloved ones. Drawing on Computer Supported Work Research, we ask what Twitter can achieve for us at the work place. On...

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Experiencing Diversity, Conflict and Emotions in Teams

Garcia-Prieto, Patricia; Bellard, Erwan; Schneider, Susan C. - 2002

Diversity in teams has been previously defined in terms of the nominal categories into which team members "fall". The core argument of this paper is that diversity is a subjective experience of social categories to which members "feel" they belong. These categories, or social identities, may...

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ARBEITSWISSENSCHAFTLICHE BEGLEITUNG DER GRUPPENMODELLE IMZUSTELLDIENST DER DEUTSCHEN POST AG - Abschlußbericht

Born, Andreas - 1997

Die Deutsche Post AG hat mit der Unterzeichnung des Tarifvertrages Nr. 462/463zum 1.9.1994 mit der Deutschen Postgewerkschaft vereinbart, durch die Einführungvon Gruppenarbeit im Zustelldienst neue Arbeitsformen zu erproben. Die Erprobungumfaßt mit dem 5-Tage-Modell (Rolli-Modell), dem...

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