RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

When pupils have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. Key topics include job design, team management, team design, employee empowerment, implementing change, and high performance workforces. In 2004, the manager of production for a manufacturer of plastic conduit, John Amasi, introduced the notion of self-directed teams into a newly rehabbed plant in Corpus Christi, Texas.

By 2007, Corpus Christi is substantially outperforming the other plants in productivity, and Amasi tours the plant to identify remaining obstacles to productivity that is even higher. In addition, it shows specific components of the SDT theory that are not functioning optimally, although the tour makes clear that many things are going right; some of these are communicated from the viewpoint of the workers themselves. At the ending of the case, as Amasi sketches out ideas for improving productivity at Corpus Christi, he also contemplates how he can persuade the unionized workforces at the other Wolfe plants to accept the SDT model. Topics Include: Design Teams, Implementing Change, Self Directed Teams, Workforce Management, General Management, Managing Teams, High Performance Work Force, Employee Empowerment, Motivation and Midsize Plastic Pipe Manufacturing.

RL Wolfe Implementing Self-Directed Teams case study solution

PUBLICATION DATE: November 30, 2009 PRODUCT #: 4063-HCB-ENG

This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE

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