The process of deciding in an independent team
The process of deciding in an independent team

Summary/Abstract: The team work is a modern form of work organization when the independent teams take over a big part of responsibility for the causes of their actions by co-decision. The team members are equal partners and they solve the team goals together. Thanks to that they are able to improve the communication and create an appropriate atmosphere which is the key of successful outcomes - not only the team ones but as well the whole organization which they are working for. The principle of teams prefers the form of making team decisions and problem solving rather than individual activity because in this case there is a constant risk of misunderstandings and communication problems. The independent teams are the main organizational part of the lean production built on lean production cells. The part of the article concentrates on the process of making decisions in the independent teams and explores the possibilities of using the independent teams' potential while making self-decisions, delivers own results of the research. Own research in this area has continued the project, the contribution of research shows partial results obtained by experiments in autonomous teams. The conclusion summarizes the results and points out that even an autonomous team should address to the basic framework of powers. This article is supported by the grant no. GAČR 402/09/0662 Decision-making processes in autonomous systems of the Czech Science Foundation.

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