Measuring manufacturing work group autonomy

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 158-174

  Bailey, Diane E ^a,b   Adiga, Sadashiv ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b Control Factory Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Manufacturing; Measurement; Team; Work group

Indexed keywords

PERSONNEL RATING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

AUTONOMOUS WORK GROUPS; BOUNDARY MANAGEMENT; TASK ALLOCATION;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0031146573     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.584924     Document Type: Article

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