Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture 9: MOS 1021 Lecture 9

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Prof

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Teamwork: common form of employee empowerment, use of cross functional teams, in the past very separate, get ppl together with different skills sets, brings different viewpoints together, drives overall team performance. Key features: engages in continuous learning, critical systemic thinking is widespread, learning culture, flexibility and experimentation, employees are valued. Job design: jobs must be designed appropriately, employees work in teams and collaborate to make decisions/solve problems. Hrm"s contribution to high: qualities such as the creativity and ability to cooperate in a team. & rewards: link employee rewards to, with hiring decisions made on qualities like teamwork skills, training will be needed to learn job specific skills, include employees in pay decisions, team development activities performance. Managing turnover: employees understand the organization"s goals and, identify situational constraints help achieve them, involuntary initiated by employer, voluntary initiated by employee. Appropriate discipline: fair, legal, and effective methods, progressive discipline, issues of off-the-job behaviour.