The purpose of this study was to compare work ethic of manufacturing machine operators between a selfdirected work team and a traditional work team based on four work ethic subscales and identify differences in work ethic based on six demographic factors. The major findings from the study indicated there were significant differences in the work ethic between machine operators in self-directed w...

In business and sports, teams often experience periods of positive and negative momentum while pursuing their goals. However, researchers have not yet been able to provide insights into how psychological and behavioral states actually change during positive and negative team momentum. In the current study we aimed to provide these insights by introducing an experimental dynamical research desig...

Agile Software Development evolved partially in response to failures associated with waterfall methods. Early Agile research explored adoption, techniques and success stories. More recent work points to challenges when Agile teams interact with wider organizational structures. This work uses Ethnography to explore tensions and challenges between tradition management structures and Agile teams t...

This paper offers a political explanation for the diffusion and sustainability of team-based work systems by examining the differential outcomes of team structures for 1200 workers, supervisors, and middle managers in a large unionized telecommunications company. Regression analyses show that participation in self-managed teams is associated with significantly higher levels of perceived discret...

This paper reports on the development process of an Electronic Social Care Record (ESCR), which used an adapted approach to Participatory Design (PD). PD is an established range of methodologies and principles for involving users in the design and implementation of systems or products. University researchers worked as part of a wider team including corporate social service stakeholders, a multi...

This paper proposes a model of self-managing work team (SMWT) effectiveness derived from several theories of organizational behavior and empirical work. Four classes of predictor variables are included: (a) an organizational context that supports employee involvement, (b) encouraging supervisory behaviors, (c) group task design, and (d) group characteristics. Three dimensions of effectiveness a...

International teamwork is one of the core components of network organizations. A set of studies was conducted to observe how students learned to work in globally dispersed virtual teams. Nineteen teams of three to seven graduate students, who resided in 13 a’i#erent universities in nine werent countries, were observed for five weeks. Many teams had members separated by a l&hour time difference....

Excerpt] Our objective in this chapter is to provide an integrative perspective on work groups and teams in organizations, one that addresses primary foci of theory and research, highlights applied implications, and identifies key issues in need of research attention and resolution. Given the volume of existing reviews, our review is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, it uses representative...

Purpose: Knowledge Work (KW) is a well-researched topic. However, KW is difficult to measure and little consensus has been reached on elements that affect knowledge work productivity on a team level. The current theories neglect teams working in distributed geographical areas. The purpose of the paper is to integrate recent literature on knowledge work productivity (KWP) in distributed teams an...