...Andrea Bikfalvi; Angela Jäger; Gunter Lay Purpose – This paper aims to map the incidence of teamwork in European manufacturing industries and describe the process of teamwork diffusion over time. The impact of country, company size, manufacturing sector and other factors on teamwork diffusion...

.... Mutual cooperation and high level of autonomy prove to be important. Originality/value – The main contribution is the authors' access to unique empirical data, and that they show and explain the social mechanisms for institutionalization of teamwork through participative observation. Monica...

... workers through job rotation (Monden, 2012). Nobuyuki Inamizu can be contacted at: inamizu@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Teamwork Time study Group leader Japanese automobile plant Lean production system Organizational adaptation A manager...

... bring them back for an interview with a panel of our supervisors and HR representatives. So I think we are also looking for the appropriate spirit of teamwork. 2 Emphasize potential to learn cross‐functional skills. To guarantee high quality products, even for those plants that hire...

...‐based perspective are enormous with regard to the theory,research, and practice of performance management. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Employees Implementation Management Organizational behaviour Performance appraisal Performance management Rewards Teamwork Total quality management...

... and the methods used. Sets out the main lessons learned from using OD programmes to bring about organizational change in communist and post‐communist economies. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Czechoslovakia Managers Organizational change Organizational development Teamwork Top management Team...