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What is teamworking? How can organisations enjoy the benefits claimed for it? What does teamworking imply for employees? Against the background of an enormous resurgence of interest in teamworking, this book provides neither simplistic prescriptions nor knee-jerk condemnation of the idea. It explores in great depth the issues raised by teamworking, how teamworking can be managed and how it is experienced by employees.
Teamworking will become the essential starting point for anyone interested in contemporary debates concerning organisations and work, whether on postgraduate, post-experience, undergraduate or professional courses, or practitioners.
List of contents
PART ONE: TEAMWORKING: INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL ISSUES
Teamworking: Concepts, Issues and Problems; S.Procter & F.Mueller
An Eager and Enduring Embrace: the Ongoing Rediscovery of a Management Idea; D.Buchanan
What's in a Team? Defining and Contextual Factors in Comparing Teams; J.Benders & G.van Hootegem
Teamworking and Employee Involvement: Technology, Evaluation and Context; M.Marchington
PART TWO: MANAGING TEAMS: STRUCTURES, ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Managerial Perceptions of Employee Roles and Responsibilities in Contemporary Manufacturing; R.Delbridge, J.Lowe, & N.Oliver
Roles and Responsibilities of Team Leaders in the Australian Automotive Industry; B.Park & R.Harris
The Differential Impact of Teamworking within the Same Company; C.Sprigg, P.Jackson & S.Parker
Potholes, Subsidence and Shifting Horizons on the Road to Teamworking: the Case of a Steel-Making Company; A.Whybrow & S.Parker
Team Leaders Riding the Cycle; T.Watson & J.Rosborough
PART THREE: WORKING IN TEAMS: THE EXPERIENCE OF EMPLOYEES
Teamworking and Industrial Relations in the UK Steel Industry; N.Bacon & P.Blyton
The Question of Teamwork in the Royal Mail: Beyond Negotiation?; M.M.Lucio, S.Jenkins & M.Noon
The Meaning and Experience of Teamworking for Employees in an Automobile Company; D.McCabe & D.Knights
Selling Teams to the Sales Force; C.Lloyd & H.Newell
In Search of `Perfect People': Teamwork and Team Players in the Scottish Spirits Industry; A.Marks, P.Thompson, T.Findlay, J.Hine & A.McKinlay.
About the author
STEPHEN PROCTER is Reader in Organisational Analysis in the Department of Management, University of St Andrews.
FRANK MUELLER is Reader in Organisation Studies and International Business at the University of Leicester.
Summary
What is teamworking? How can organisations enjoy the benefits claimed for it? What does teamworking imply for employees? Against the background of an enormous resurgence of interest in teamworking, this book provides neither simplistic prescriptions nor knee-jerk condemnation of the idea. It explores in great depth the issues raised by teamworking, how teamworking can be managed and how it is experienced by employees.
Teamworking will become the essential starting point for anyone interested in contemporary debates concerning organisations and work, whether on postgraduate, post-experience, undergraduate or professional courses, or practitioners.
