ISSN:
0025-1747
Quelle:
Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
Thema:
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Notizen:
In the past decade there has been a movement towards "employeeempowerment". Employee/management teams have played an integral part inthis change. Recently, the idea of the self-directed work group hasemerged, giving groups of employees both the responsibility over aparticular area or function of the business, as well as authority tomake decisions and implement solutions in that area. Large productivityincreases, high morale, and increased employee commitment are some ofthe benefits of these groups, but all is not positive. Argues thatcompanies wanting to switch to self-directed work groups must beprepared thoroughly for the changes that will lie ahead. There are anumber of areas which, if focused on now, will minimize the difficultiesthat can result before and after the process of change has begun. Theycan be categorized into three topics: preparing the organization(including top management attitudes, organizational structure,compensation systems, and employee-retention strategies), preparingmanagement (including attitudes, skills training, and vocabularychanges), and preparing employees (including attitudes, communicationand group skills-training, and job cross-training).
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251749410069471
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