Exploring the diversity of teams
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A study investigated the diversity of teams in actual organizational practice by evaluating 155 teams in five firms where teamwork as an organizational model was introduced. The analysis focused solely on operational units and the structural elements of team work, such as work processes, employee skills, team hierarchy, salary systems and degree of group autonomy. Findings indicate a number of factors to consider in team building.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1998
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Integration of benchmarking and benchmarking integration
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Benchmarking is a method that uses comparisons between company performances to evaluate and identify functions that need to be improved. There are four basic types of benchmarking, namely: goal benchmarking, organizational benchmarking, integration benchmarking and implementation benchmarking. A discussion of the differences between the four types as well as their relationships with the process of optimization is presented.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1995
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