Today’s workflow systems assume that each work item is executed by a single worker. From the viewpoint of the system, a worker with the proper qualifications selects a work item, executes the associated work, and reports the result. There is usually no support for teams, i.e., groups of people collaborating by jointly executing work items (e.g., the program committee of a conference, the manage...

OBJECTIVE The study examines the implications for shiftworkers of applying different numbers of teams in the organization of shiftwork. METHODS The participating operators came from five different companies applying continuous shift rotation systems. The companies shared the same product organization and a common corporate culture belonging to the same multinational company. Each company had ...

The high performance organisation is a community of hundreds of disparate groups of people working in teams, throughout its structures and across its geography. For an interesting biological imagery, imagine looking through a microscope at an organisms cell structure and observing the countless amoebic movements, energy and growth formations which then split away and dissolve within the mass, j...