Creating Self-Directed Work Teams

Self-directed Work Teams Challenges for Leading, Managing, and Performing in Self-directed Work Teams

The Effect of Self-Directed Work Teams on Work Ethic

The purpose of this study was to compare work ethic of manufacturing machine operators between a selfdirected work team and a traditional work team based on four work ethic subscales and identify differences in work ethic based on six demographic factors. The major findings from the study indicated there were significant differences in the work ethic between machine operators in self-directed w...

Relative Validity of Peer and Self-evaluations in Self- Directed Interdependent Work Teams

1 Robert S. Thompson, Colorado School of Mines, Petroleum Engineering Department, Golden, CO 80401 [email protected] Abstract  Peer and self-evaluations were conducted on interdependent multidisciplinary self-directed work teams. Teams worked on two projects during the semester with membership changing between the two projects. Generalizability theory was used to partition the peer ratings in...

Designing Effective Self-managing Work Teams

This paper proposes a model of self-managing work team (SMWT) effectiveness derived from several theories of organizational behavior and empirical work. Four classes of predictor variables are included: (a) an organizational context that supports employee involvement, (b) encouraging supervisory behaviors, (c) group task design, and (d) group characteristics. Three dimensions of effectiveness a...

Self-directed teams in IS: correlates for improved systems development work outcomes

Self-directed work teams (SDWTs) often result from reengineering and process innovation efforts as well as recent movements to `downsize', or ` ̄atten' organizations. Information systems (IS) departments have not been insulated from these trends. In spite of the rising interest in these teams, little is known about them in knowledge work settings like IS. Past research in blue-collar contexts su...