Harvard Business School ARTICLE:

RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams.

-David A. Garvin

-Elizabeth Collins

In terms of both personnel management and plant policy, how would you address the identified areas of struggle between the workforce and plant management? Where would you set the boundary in decision making between the self-directed teams and management?

Compare and contrast the new plant to the old plant in terms of work design (think back to the week on motivation). Identify and rank order the most challenging problems.?

Why does Amasi decide to use this work system at the new Corpus Christi plant? Explain his decision-making process using either the classical or bounded rationality model of decision making. (Please explicitly identify each step in which ever process you choose).?

if you were Amasi, how would you present the benefits of the self-directed team concept and the reasons for continuing the Corpus Christi Experiment to the unionized workforce in the other two Wolfe plants?