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| Author: | Gerwin, D. Moffat, L. |
| Title: | Withdrawal of team autonomy during concurrent engineering |
| Journal: | Management Science
1997 : SEP, VOL. 43:9, p. 1275-1287 |
| Index terms: | AUTONOMOUS WORK GROUPS TEAM WORK CONCURRENT ENGINEERING EMPOWERMENT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Team autonomy is an essential characteristic of cross-functional teams engaged in concurrent engineering.It also is a characteristic that North American firms have considerable difficulty in successfully implementing. Delegating a good deal of decision making to teams is often counteracted by processes that during a new product program withdraw some of a team's autonomy or discretion. Withdrawing autonomy is negatively correlated with both task and process aspects of team performance. The determinants of withdrawing discretion include lack of a shared understanding of the development process, environmental change, and lack of managerial "buy-in" to team autonomy. |
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