Teamwork at General Foods: new and improved

Article Abstract:

The creation of work teams can be an effective strategy for maximizing employee performance, satisfaction, responsibility, and commitment to a firm, as exemplified by General Foods' inter-functional business-work teams. The synergistic success of a good team strategy integrating diverse human resources and focusing on clear organizational goals and values does not require gifted individual participants. Team benefits may include: sharing and integration of individual skills, tapping of unknown member resources, a sense of being a winner, and more stimulation, effort, endurance, ideas, motivation, fun, and confidence. High-performing teams require: clear, important goals; diverse and equal skills, recognizing their combined need; leadership; good team relations and coordination; communications; continuity; and rewards.

Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), General Foods Corp.

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Test your gain sharing potential

Article Abstract:

Assuring the viability of a corporate gain-sharing plan includes careful evaluation of factors such as the nature of physical and economic productivity in the firm; inputs by economists, accountants, and management professionals; social, demographic, and political considerations; business aspects of a company; and human factors. The business aspects reviewed should include: history of employment, competitive climate, attrition rates, overtime, recent changes, scrap and rework reduction potential, and returns and allowances potential. Human aspects to review include: building blocks for a gain-sharing plan, history of employee-firm relations, contract terms, mix of people, outside interpersonal relationships, leadership, and second incomes. Ratio delay studies and opinion surveys should be performed.

Management, Employee benefits, Gain sharing

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