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Addresses quality in schools, and looks specifically at teacher teams, and the problems facing them as they seek to … and use various interventions to “unfreeze” troubled or ineffectual teams.  …
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Managing change is the crux of reducing the environmental impact of organisations. Teams are often used in large … communicating change can be different, is there still a rôle for change management through teams? The authors present case studies … in the field and compare it with teams used in these case study organizations. Describe how they choose priorities and …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how participatory decision‐making processes in top management teams …
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’ ability to resolve conflicts and the teams’ openness in communication. Team members’ and leaders’ perceptions did not differ …
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This paper reports the findings of a study into 12 UK and nine Japanese automotive component plants. Compared to the UK plants, the Japanese plants showed a 60 per cent superiority on productivity and a 9:1 superiority in quality. Detailed examination of work structures on the shopfloor revealed...
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Suggests that one of the most critical problems faced in achieving the implementation of market strategies is building consensus among managers and technical specialists that change in strategy is needed, to respond to change in the outside marketplace. Observes that without the belief of key...
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distinguished the human species. More recently, empowerment has been used as a way of ensuring members of an organization have … from every level of the organization. Essential measures for successful empowerment include passing on information on all … collective leadership as part of a team. Empowerment will not work unless we address the human need for self‐control.  …
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’s largest experiment in empowerment went awry, however. A state‐supported neo‐Taylorism with a “thinking tank” and a separate … “working tank,” evolved which represented little real empowerment. By the 1980s, self‐management had become an impotent … lessons for understanding and managing empowerment efforts today.  …
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