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RESPONSIBLE SELF-MANAGEMENT

Two Stories of highly successful organizations where front-line employees self-manage their core work process, evolving new roles for everyone, including Supervisors, Engineers, Managers.  One is a High-Tech Company, the other is a major Manufacturer.

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 (For more information on Story #1 and Story #2, click on DVD Title below.)
  ....plus: for a   Preview  of each DVD, click on  the specific pic below    

 Story #1
Cutting  Edge  Teamwork
Background       Material  
Self-directed production employees integrated with engineering support achieved a dramatic manufacturing 'recovery' for a computer company, now organized for
continuous learning & total quality
 

 

  "For my clients  in high tech companies, this video has been a great, low-cost  way
 to let them hear the team message directly from  their counterparts."

 -Al   Holmes,
Director, Sequus  Inc.
Winnipeg, Manitoba  Canada  

 
DVD STORY MENU

A New Work System

Doing the "Whole" Job

Control & Coordination

Engineering Support

"Open" Management & The Busines
 

  Story #2
   Power Of Participation     
Background       Material  
At LS Electro-Galvanizing Company steelworkers are the difference in achieving profitability and outstanding quality, and their crew self-management is a product of a "total" work environment.
 

 

 "Chockfull of  real-life action and commentary.....which helps viewers  understand various Stakeholder interests and the experience of  High Performance work organizations."

- Randy Schaefer,
Manager, Organizational  Development,
Weldwood of Canada.. 

 
DVD STORY MENU

 Total Involvement Organization

Flexible, Multi-Functional Work Units

Operator = "Knowledge" Worker

Process Coordinators

The Role of Management

CUSTOMIZED LEARNING – THEMES & RESOURCES

 The workplaces documented in this program illustrate "The Second Design Principle" for organization design, (click on link to read Emery's article in Volume II: Trist/Tavistock Anthology).  The conditions that compel adoption of this alternative design principle are described in the article by Emery & Trist, "The Causal Texture of Oganizational Environments" in Volume III: Trist/Tavistock Anthology.

Key themes of this DVD program include the New Roles for Workers, Supervisors, and Managers.  As Purser & Cabana write in their book " The Self-Managing Organization"
(see Good Reading):

"each level in the hierarchy…has authority and responsibility over its own set of tasks…within designated and mutually negotiated boundaries.  Most importantly, the traditional role of management shifts its primary attention from internal control and coordination…to managing across internal and external boundaries of the company."

Themes are also linked to other programs in this DVD Collection;
" Participative Work Design": Story 1. Re-Designing A Workplace for Self-Regulation,
 the program "Whole Systems Teamwork": Story 2: Everybody Leads, and
 the program "Engineering for Commitment: Social System Design".

For more information—see "Responsible Self-Management": The Resource Guide .