... approach simultaneously wants to create attractive jobs for workers and an attractive production process for the company. If we concentrate on the latter, we notice this is done by establishing: clearly delineated, coherent (or semi‐autonomous) work groups that are capable performers...

...Sigvard Rubenowitz Claims that the most important demands on managers in sociotechnical organized systems with more or less autonomous work groups are generally that they must have a basic trust in their subordinates and their capacity and development potential, that they must be able to set goals...

...Roel Schuring Until recently, only relatively few Northern European companies had organized their operations by use of autonomous work groups, although the first literature on this subject stems from the 1950s. Yet this seems to be changing. From recent publications and the author′s experience...