... roles related to employee influence. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Employees participation Employees relations Teamwork Organizational commitment Normative control Concertive control Denmark A key target within the field of organizational behavior is to achieve...

... on these elements, the authors reflected on the function of teamwork in these contexts, which is strongly dominated by a notion of flexibility under complexity, based on the technical, normative, and governance dimensions of teamwork. Design/methodology/approach Problem‐centred interviews (n=11) based...

...Abigail Marks; James Richards; Raffaella Valsecchi; Sarah Wise; Frank Mueller; Chris Smith Purpose This paper aims to explore the introduction of teamwork in two health call centres, NHS Direct and NHS24, and intervenes in the emergent debate over teamwork in call centres. Although within the call...

...Abigail Marks; James Richards; James Richards; Shiona Chillas; Abigail Marks Purpose This paper aims to examine the practice of teamwork in an under‐researched, yet growing industrial setting. Design/methodology/approach Longitudinal ethnographic‐styled methods of data collection were used...

...Abigail Marks; James Richards; Abigail Marks; James Richards Purpose This editorial seeks to explore changes in both teamwork and developments in teamwork research over the last decade. Design/methodology/approach The editorial review importantly focuses on the key debates that emerge from...

...Abigail Marks; James Richards; Monica Rolfsen; Camilla Langeland Purpose The paper aims to investigate how teamwork contributes to successful maintenance practice within maintenance work in an industrial setting. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data were gathered from a single case...

.... At the time of undertaking this research it is the second largest spirits company in the UK after UD. The structure and training history within ADL was distinctly different to that of UD. Organizational learning Organizational change Work organization Teamwork Psychology has traditionally...

...Thomas Murakami The paper contributes to the discussion on works councils and teamwork in the German auto industry. General Motors’ Opel plant in Germany has been chosen to study works councils’ participation in the process of introducing teamwork, and the effects of teamwork on workers...

... into believing that the adoption of these techniques could save them. It could not, however vigorously they were implemented. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Cellular manufacturing Flexibility Investment Manufacturing industry Teamwork Transfer pricing The most impressive attribute...

... account of the patterns of change found. Develops instead a model of change which emphasizes the creative adaptation of production practices within the British context. Lean production Teamwork Trade unions Work organization To begin, though, with the interpretations which have dominated...

... to events in the face of a determined management (Storey, 1992). Carr (1994) offers a fourfold framework for understanding trade union responses to team working which includes: “open hostility”; “seeking to tame/subvert teamwork”; “acceptance of the legitimacy of team working”; and “embracing team working...

...Jackie Coyle‐Shapiro A longitudinal research design was used to investigate the effects of a TQM intervention on teamwork in a manufacturing setting. Indicates that TQM intervention did not have a significant direct effect on teamwork. However, one aspect of the intervention, supervisory...

... agenda on the central workplace and societal issues. Looks at the obstacles and potential for doing this in the sphere of work organization, utilizing comparative research in the UK and Sweden. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Bargaining Cellular Manufacturing SAAB Sweden Teamwork Trade Unions...

... of the performance measures. Discusses results and implications for future research. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Aerospace industry Group working Performance measurement Productivity Teamwork Time study Employee Relations 15,4 42 Work Group Performance: Evaluation by Day of the Week Joyce I. McQuilkin...

... in a fully fledged capital‐intensive, high‐tech manufacturing plant, where high machine utilization is crucial. Apprenticeships Flexible manning Management styles Motor industry Teamwork Training Japan Germany Note: This paper was subsequently published in Management Decision, Volume 30...