The case is forcibly stated for a new style of management focused on the needs, expectations and participation of health care employees at all levels. Only collaborative teamwork is seen to be appropriate to developing the levels of effectiveness needed for those health care organisations...

Provides theoretical background for examining the development of self‐managed work teams as a total quality management (TQM) intervention at the employee level. Briefly summarizes the current knowledge regarding self‐managed work teams within the context of sociotechnical system design....

This paper reports the findings of a study regarding the reactions of 492 line‐level employees from two Fortune 500 organizations in response to the organizations’ recent implementation of self‐managing work teams (SMWTs). As predicted, we found that anticipatory injustice was...

Part I: Personal Transformation -- Ch 1. The Hero and the Sherpa -- Ch 2 Creating Space for Personal Transformation -- Ch 3. Create the Future with a Transformation Model -- Part II Educational Transformation -- Ch 4. A Return to Virtue -- Ch 5. A Journey to Transform Students into Implementing...

Contends that, with the accelerating dynamics of competition and a move of organizations towards more dynamic approaches to strategy formulation and implementation, creativity becomes of key importance for achieving both product and operational excellence. Over the last decade organizations have...

Provides a case study of teambuilding training in a clinical environment. Analyses changes in behaviour for individuals and teams following training, and seeks to provide lessons for the trainer and line manager by drawing out the successes and problems of the intervention. Also provides lessons...

Europe in 1992 will have a different environment. To remain competitive firms will need to have improved their internal organisation. The relationships between three organisational variables – task design, work flow and people – and technical complexity are discussed. The Japanese...

Team building is a common thread throughout most organizational change and management development activities. As teams are built, they should evolve through three stages of learning: (1) crisis problem solving, (2) productivity improvement to the current situation, and (3) anticipatory learning....