Team development and team performance. Responsibilities, responsiveness and results: A longitudinal study of teamwork at Volvo Trucks Umeå

B. Kuipers

Team development and team performance. Responsibilities, responsiveness and results: A longitudinal study of teamwork at Volvo Trucks Umeå

B. Kuipers

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A three-year longitudinal study of more than 150 self-managing work teams was carried out at Volvo Trucks Umea, Sweden. Data obtained by this study were used to test a model about the performance effects of team development, answering the following research questions: (1) how can the team developmental processes be described; (2) what are their effects on business performance as well as on quality of working life; and (3) what are the management structure’s inputs that generate team responsiveness? The study reveals three team-development processes, consistent over time, and each positively related to both indicators of business performance and quality of working life. A result-oriented approach is suggested, which supports teams and managers in making work teams more succesful, while focusing on inputs, processes as well as outputs.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	University of Groningen
Supervisors/Advisors	de Witte, Marco, Supervisor van der Zwaan, Adrianus, Supervisor
Award date	7-Jul-2005
Publisher	s.n.
Print ISBNs	9053350608
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

Proefschriften (vorm)
Volvo
Productieprocessen
Teamwork
organisatiesociologie, organisatiepsychologie

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