Self-Managed Work Teams CH9

Flexibility

- Team members learn all tasks and move from job to job, so they can fill in for absent coworkers

Can increase

•Can increase productivity and efficiency

Greater autonomy and responsibility

•Responsibility for scheduling work and vacations, ordering materials, hiring new members (previously the manager's responsibility)

Cost savings

•eliminating supervisors and flatter organizational hierarchy

Self-managed

•work teams produce an entire product instead of just parts of it