Team efficiency impact of individual group and environmental level variables on different work teams

By Sharma Monika

"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you have got a good team, you cannot do much with the other two" Lee Iacocca

Work teams are an important part of today's organizations. In the last twenty years there has been a remarkable worldwide transformation in organizational structures. Many researchers have noticed a shift in organizations from an individual based work structure to a team based work structure (Kozlowski and Bell, 2003; Lawler, Mohrman, and Ledford, 1985). A survey by Waterson, Clegg, Bolden, Pepper, Warr & Wall (1997) has shown that in the mid 1990s, 55 percent of manufacturing companies in the United Kingdom were using work teams. Studies have also been reporting a steady increase in the use of work teams and collaborative strategies in the automobile, steel, textile and the science and technology industry (Holusha, 1987; Reich, 1987).

Lawler, Mohrman and Ledford (1995) found in their survey on high performing organizations in United States of America that the use of self-managed work teams and problem solving teams had increased enormously from 1987 to 1993. Gordon (1992) and Devine et al. (1999) also reported the similar findings in different organization in United States of America. In India as well the general observation and recent increase in academic research on work teams (e.g. Nandini, 2000; Ojha, 2000, 2003) indicates increased.use of work teams in organizations. However, we could not find any published data regarding the application of work teams in Indian organizations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805254111
• ISBN13: 9781805254119
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Independent Author
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"