WHAT A TEAM! Napoleon preferred lucky generals, and Thorax has lucky Editors in Chief because we have a great team of deputy editors, associate editors, production staff and editorial board. A former Editor in Chief (it is said!) used to write to authors to say either “I am sorry, but the Associate Editor has recommended rejection of your manuscript” or “I am pleased to tell you I that have acc...

Purpose: of this paper: In the paper is presented a Six Sigma project, undertaken within company for production automotive parts, which deals with identification and reduction of production cost in the deburring process for gravity die-castings and improvement of quality level of produced parts. Design/methodology/approach: The objectives are achieved by application of Six Sigma approach to qua...

This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. Our main focus is on “efficiency norms,” that is, norms that arise from workers’ desire for, or peer pressure towards, social efficiency for the workers as a group. In a simple model of team production and linear contracts we examine the possibility of multiple equilibria, and whether too strong economic inc...

Production systems necessarily feature both detail complexity, the effect of having many variables, and dynamic complexity, the effect of time and spatial separation, non-linearity, and counter-intuitive relationships between cause and effect. This paper presents a system dynamics modeling of a Nigerian automotive battery production organisation. Policy runs of the system simulation were done t...

Within the past few years, the open source software development (OSSD) has gained tremendous popularity as an alternative and promising approach to software production. The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of collaborative relations on the behavior of the OSSD team. In this proposal we develop a theoretical framework and research hypotheses. We then outline the research met...

Background. Attention to the loyalty of fans to the long-term success of sports organizations has become increasingly important. On this note, it seems necessary to pay attention to the variables that predict and influence the loyalty of spectators. Objectives. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of satisfaction in the effect of team reputation and team quality on the loy...

I worked in a basic science biology laboratory throughout my undergraduate years. But I was not trained in genomics, systems biology, neurophysiology, or modern molecular aspects of medicine. I conducted behavioral intervention studies for my master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation (Powers, Blount, Bachanas, Cotter, & Swan, 1993; Powers & Roberts, 1995). But I did not learn about the phases o...

background: in regard to enhancement of efficiency and productivity of an organization in terms of teamwork, it is necessary to shift to team-centered approach for increasing confidence in health care systems. therefore it is needed to assess effect of the academic training on students' viewpoint in team working. methods: this was a cross-sectional study and was done in kurdistan universit...

During 1998-99, BYU Broadcast Services Division developed a digital media teaching resource for faculty and students of Civilization 201/202 courses at BYU. A project team was organized with 1 full time project manager, a part time associate project manager, graduate student instructional designer, and 6-8 student graphic artists, researchers, production managers, and technical assistants. Duri...