The impact of organizational context on work team effectiveness: A study of production team

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 285-296

  Doolen, Toni L ^a   Hacker, Marla E ^a   Van Aken, Eileen M ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Mature work teams; Organizational context; Production management; Production teams; Work team effectiveness; Work teams

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; JOB SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MATURE WORK TEAMS; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; PRODUCTION TEAMS; WORK TEAM EFFECTIVENESS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0242333982     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2003.817296     Document Type: Article

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