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... organizations are beginning to make the more radical move of aban doning the concept of the job altogether. One factor contr ...

and management policies and practices (Beer et al. 1985 ; Sinha and Van de Ven 2005 ). This conceptual framework is presented in ...

inhibited by the existing knowledge, skills, and abilities they already possess, their attitudes towards such changes, and/or by ...

Discretion. In some work systems, employees have a high degree of control over operational aspects of work performance, such as ...

2 Technology The content of work activities and responsibilities is strongly inXuenced by the technical subsystem. In theW ...

4 People The successful performance of any set of work activities is clearly dependent on the level of commitment and capa ...

.the work system’s capacity to generate high levels of work performance and goal attainment on the part of those working within ...

Frank Gilbreth ( 1911 ) and, more famously, Frederick Taylor ( 1911 )’s scientiWc management treatise (Locke 1982 ). The content ...

On the debit side, however, it seems clear that the low discretion combined with high demands and low skill utilization frequent ...

more cost-conscious market segments where high-involvement work practices appear to have most impact on sales growth: they not o ...

leadership (Avolio et al. 2004 ; Cordery and Wall 1985 ; Whittington et al. 2004 ). Transformational leaders motivate employees ...

supervisory ratings) of over 500 bank tellers. Workman and Bomber ( 2004 ) similarly found that increasing employee involvement ...

responsibility for developing performance goals and standards, allocating tasks and workloads, performance monitoring, initiatin ...

several potential beneWts having been identiWed (Cordery 2004 , 2005 ). First, the use of self-managed work teams may enable mor ...

to contemporary organizational settings than mechanistic (and motivational) approaches? In answering theWrst question, we have s ...

broader societal criteria). Nevertheless, they do diverge in their vision of how work systems aVect organizational performance; ...

References Allen, N. J. and Hecht,T.D.( 2004 ). ‘The ‘‘Romance of Teams’’: Toward an Understand ing of its Psychological Underpi ...