The confrontations and successes stumbled upon by the Air Travel business of GE in implementing a teaming work structure and traditions in plants across its supply chain. GE Aviation direction had seen dramatic augmentation in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in manufacturing plants where it had implemented teaming, which was made to move decision making as close to the product as possible by delegating authority, responsibility, and accountability to frontline staff.
The case depicts what teaming appeared like in two of GE Aviation's plants and discusses the advantages realized in teaming websites. It discusses the difficulty management had faced in moving forward in transforming the culture of the plant, and also describes the challenges GE Aviation leaders had struck in executing teaming in the face of an entrenched work construction and tradition in a single particular plant.
Teaming at GE Aviation case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: October 03, 2012 PRODUCT #: 413074-PDF-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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