Production Teamworking: The Importance Of Interdependence And Autonomy For Employee Strain And Satisfaction  

Oleh:

Parker, Sharon K. ; Jackson, Paul R. ; Sprigg, Christine A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Human Relations vol. 53 no. 11 (Nov. 2000), page 1519–1543.
Topik: employee strain; individual and collective autonomy; interdependence; teamworking
Fulltext: 1519.pdf (193.57KB)

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A UK manufacturer introduced a common model of teamworking which achieved quite different performance results in wire-mills and roperies. Survey data (n = 231) showed higher job-related strain and lower job satisfaction in the wire-mills, where teamworking was not a success. Findings indicated that the differences in employee wellbeing could be accounted for by contrasting levels of process interdependence in the two production areas. Teamworking was a success in the roperies where process interdependence was high, but not in the wire-mills where there was a mismatch between this production process characteristic and a team-based form of work organization. Interactions between interdependence and autonomy were also found, such that higher autonomy had a positive impact only for those working in low interdependence processes. The unintended consequence of teamworking under low interdependence is to create winners and losers, as individual team-members take on responsibilities of the team as a whole.

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