TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Gaines Dog Food plant in Topeka KS is built around self‐managing work teams. It opened in 1971 and has been 20% more productive than similar, traditional plants for two decades. The Procter & Gamble Co.'s Paper Products Division implemented self‐managing teams at the same time; by 1975, it knew that the division was significantly more productive than traditionally organized plants. In the mid‐1980s, AT&T's American Transtech subsidiary cut its prices to customers by 50%, then avoided layoffs, then became even more profitable by moving to more fully self‐managing teams. And tiny Litel Communications (now LCI) used teams to cut time to process a service order from two weeks to one day.
VL  - 13
IS  - 5
SN  - 0275-6668
DO  - 10.1108/eb039516
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb039516
AU  - Carr Clay
PY  - 1992
Y1  - 1992/01/01
TI  - Planning Priorities for Empowered Teams
T2  - Journal of Business Strategy
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 43
EP  - 47
Y2  - 2024/09/25
ER  -