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.

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Autorentext
STEPHEN PROCTER is Reader in Organisational Analysis in the Department of Management, University of St Andrews, UK.FRANK MUELLER is Reader in Organisation Studies and International Business at the University of Leicester, UK.

Inhalt
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.<p