Teamworking /

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Bibliographic Details
Meeting name:International Workshop on Teamworking (1st : 1997 : University of Nottingham)
Imprint:New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Description:xv, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4215037
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Other authors / contributors:Procter, Stephen J.
Mueller, Frank, 1963-
ISBN:0312229011 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Part I. Introduction and general issues
  • 1. Teamworking: strategy, structure, systems and culture
  • 2. An eager and enduring embrace: the ongoing rediscovery of teamworking as a management idea
  • 3. How the Japanese got teams
  • 4. Teamworking and employee involvement: terminology, evaluation and context
  • Part II. Managing teams: changing roles and responsibilities
  • 5. Interdependence as a key requirement for the successful introduction of teamworking: a case study
  • 6. Introducing teamworking: managing the process of change
  • 7. Worker autonomy in lean teams: evidence from the world automotive components industry
  • 8. Roles and responsibilities of team leaders and members: a case study of the Australian automotive industry
  • 9. Teamworking and the management of flexibility: local and social-structural tensions in high performance work design initiatives
  • Part III. Working in teams: employee attitudes and experiences
  • 10. Selling teams to the salesforce: teamworking in the UK pharmaceutical industry
  • 11. The team dream: the meaning and experience of teamworking for employees in an automobile manufacturing company
  • 12. 'Flexible when it suits them': the use and abuse of teamwork skills
  • 13. The diffusion of teamworking and new working practices: what role do industrial relations factors play?
  • 14. Management strategy, union identity and oppositionalism: teamwork in the Royal Mail
  • Index