ERIC Number: EJ967093
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-1548-9566
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Personal Skills, Job Satisfaction, and Productivity in Members of High Performance Teams
Valdes-Flores, Patricia; Campos-Rodriguez, Javier Arturo
College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, v4 n1 p81-86 2008
The intention of the study is to identify the development of personal skills, as well as the increase of job satisfaction and productivity of the employee, as a result of their participation in high performance teams. Volunteered in the study 139 members of self-managed teams belonging to the Production Area, 39 of Operational Administrative teams, 19 members of Cross-Functional teams and 6 of 6-Sigma Projects, all of them belonging to a company of the Maquiladora Industry in Tijuana, B.C., Mexico. The study indicates that 100% of the members of the Production Area teams and the Operational Administrative teams developed some personal skills or increased their satisfaction or productivity as a result of their participation in some kind of self-managed team. In Cross-Functional teams members, the changes took place in the 94.3% of the cases and in the 97% of the 6-Sigma teams' members. There was also a significant difference found between the results of the four types of self-managed teams studied. This paper provides information to CEOs regarding the importance of the design and the implementation of working programs for self-managed teams; these not only will strengthen the employee achievement of a greater satisfaction and productivity, but will also allow them to develop personal skills.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skills, Individual Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Productivity, Quality of Working Life, Participation, Self Directed Groups, Teamwork, High Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Employees
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico
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