This paper measures the productivity impact of shop-floor employee involvement. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the study finds that the introduction of team-work and autonomous work groups, and a reduction of hierarchies in 1996/97 significantly increased average establishment productivity in 1997 – 2000. The estimation strategy controls for unobserved invariant...

An observational tool was developed to record distraction and interruption in the operating theatre during surgery. Observed events were assigned to pre-defined categories and rated in relation to the level of team involvement - the sum of which was treated as a measure of intra-operative interference. Many events (0.29 +/- 0.02 per min) were observed and rated in 50 general operations sampled ...

This study’s goal is to investigate and better understand the issues connected with project teams’ building in enterprise system (ES) implementation. The analysis builds on two-phased research conducted among two groups of enterprises introducing ES into their organizations. The investigated issues include the project team composition, the involvement of a system provider’s representatives, pro...

AIM To investigate how nurses and physicians perceive organizational culture, their integration into the organizational processes, and relations within a health care team. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study that included 106 physicians and 558 nurses from 14 Slovenian hospitals in December 2005. The hospitals were randomly selected. We distributed the questionnaires on the same day ...

Our recent research, using expert consensus with trialists who had contributed to the Cochrane systematic review, has helped to establish key components of effective Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD) services. One essential element is that the ESD multidisciplinary team should have access to specialist stroke knowledge. However, how this is organised and put into working practice is less w...

this study builds on laufer and hulstijn’s (2001) motivational-cognitive construct of task-induced involvement in learning vocabulary and addresses itself to its strong claim that the depth of processing is the overriding factor in learning words. the paper first re-examines the effect of processing load and then of task type on the initial learning and retention of words. to do so, 60 efl lear...

THE TERM TEAMS is used heavily in industry today, often with little more than a hope behind it. However, as companies strive for greater productivity and responsiveness to market changes, effective teams often play a central role in initiating organizational change. Such real teams may occur in any part of the business, but this article focuses on the particular issues arising in using teams in...