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Antar Automobile Company - Part I: The Automation Project
內容大綱
A project manager in the Operational Research Department of an automobile assembly plant must decide how he can most effectively redirect his team to meet management's deadline and design expectations. For five months he had been supervising the work of three young company employees who were developing a simulated assembly line. However, because his current responsibilities left him in charge of four or five projects at a time, all in varying stages of completion, he had left his assistants to work together with very little intervention from him. As a result, he is facing the pressure of an uncompleted project and an unnecessarily elaborate design. (This case should be used with Antar Automobile Company - Part II: Team and Individual Objectives and Antar Automobile Company - Part III: Conflicting Objectives.)
學習目標
<ul><li>To illustrate the process by which work teams develop cohesion.</li><li>To understand the components which lead to cohesion.</li><li>To illustrate how cohesive work groups may often act in a manner contrary to the best interests of the company, exploring the point at which their productivity deviates from positive to negative.</li><li>To explore means by which a work group can be managed so that the members maintain their cohesion and focus their efforts towards corporate rather than individual/team objectives.</li></ul>This is an excellent case to learn of the conditions that create group cohesion and the effect of cohesion on productivity. The students can also explore the pivotal role of management to determine how the setting of group goals affects the group's productivity.