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| Tekijä: | Minssen, H. |
| Otsikko: | Challenges of teamwork in production: demands of communication |
| Lehti: | Organization Studies
2006 : VOL. 27:1, p. 103 124 |
| Asiasana: | team work organizational change conflict co-operation communication |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Introducing and utilizing teamwork in production is a gradual process of changing the companys control system from hierarchical to discursive coordination, which leads to the challenge of higher density of communication. This is troublesome for both workers and superiors; workers need to cooperate through self-regulation and are forced to communicate more than before, superiors fearing of losing their power are forced to treat workers as experts rather than just recipients of orders. By considering the neo-institutionalistic concept of isomorphism it can be suggested that the diffusion of teamwork is a mimetic isomorphism case, but the guidelines for rationalization must always fit to the internal conditions. Organizations are cautious about new concepts like teamwork because they are structurally conservative. The concepts that are taken for granted in the companys organizational field cannot be rejected, but that doesnt guarantee that the implementation of the concept or practice will succeed. |
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