How Material Objects Shape Student Team Learning Processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peisheng Huang ◽  
April L Wright ◽  
Stuart Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Team Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Student Team

Participative work design in lean production

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Lantz ◽  
Niklas Hansen ◽  
Conny Antoni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Lean Production ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Proactive Behaviour ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore job design mechanisms that enhance team proactivity within a lean production system where autonomy is uttermost restricted. We propose and test a model where the team learning process of building shared meaning of work mediates the relationship between team participative decision-making, inter team relations and team proactive behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The results are based on questionnaires to 417 employees within manufacturing industry (response rate 86 per cent) and managers’ ratings of team proactivity. The research model was tested by mediation analysis on aggregated data (56 teams). Findings – Team learning mediates the relationship between participative decision-making and inter team collaboration on team proactive behaviour. Input from stakeholders in the work flow and partaking in decisions about work, rather than autonomy in carrying out the work, enhance the teams’ proactivity through learning processes. Research limitations/implications – An investigation of the effects of different leadership styles and management policy on proactivity through team-learning processes might shed light on how leadership promotes proactivity, as results support the effects of team participative decision-making – reflecting management policy – on proactivity. Practical implications – Lean production stresses continuous improvements for enhancing efficiency, and such processes rely on individuals and teams that are proactive. Participation in forming the standardization of work is linked to managerial style, which can be changed and developed also within a lean concept. Based on our experiences of implementing the results in the production plant, we discuss what it takes to create and manage participative processes and close collaboration between teams on the shop floor, and other stakeholders such as production support, based on a shared understanding of the work and work processes. Social implications – Learning at the workplace is essential for long-term employability, and for job satisfaction and health. The lean concept is widely spread to both public bodies and enterprises, and it has been shown that it can be linked to increased stress and an increase in workload. Finding the potential for learning within lean production is essential for balancing the need of efficient production and employees’ health and well-being at work. Originality/value – Very few studies have investigated the paradox between lean and teamwork, yet many lean-inspired productions systems have teamwork as a pillar for enhancing effectiveness. A clear distinction between autonomy and participation contributes to the understanding of the links between job design, learning processes and team proactivity.

Disseminating Student Team Learning through Federally Funded Programs

Knowledge ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN H. HOLLIFIELD ◽  
ROBERT E. SLAVIN
Keyword(s):  
Team Learning ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Student Team

Effects of Student Team Learning in Undergraduate Auditing Courses

1997 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gregory Kunkel ◽  
William E. Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Team Learning ◽  
Student Team

Integrating Six Sigma tools using team‐learning processes

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Cecilia Martinez Leon ◽  
Maria del Carmen Temblador Perez ◽  
Jennifer A. Farris ◽  
Mario G. Beruvides
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Learning Processes

STUDENT TEAM LEARNING IN JEWISH SCHOOLS

1989 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-34
Author(s):  
Sara S. Shapiro ◽  
Ruth Ravid
Keyword(s):  
Team Learning ◽  
Jewish Schools ◽  
Student Team

scholarly journals Team Learning Processes and Activities in Organization: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snežana Lazarević ◽  
Jelena Lukić
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Service Organization ◽  
Pearson Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Team Management ◽  
Team Members

Abstract Organizations in today’s environment are relied on teams and their learning as key determinants for survival and success. The aim of this paper is to identify the key team learning processes and activities in organizations and to examine how the eventual appearance and growth of the problems in team impact on those processes and activities. Research was conducted in nine teams with 79 members in one public service organization located in Belgrade, Serbia, using interview and questionnaire techniques. Descriptive analysis, linear regression and Pearson correlation coefficient were used for processing and interpreting collected data. The results show that undefined roles of team members, a lack of trust among them, inadequate rewards, inadequate leadership and team management, will cause a moderate decrease in team learning processes and activities. The value of this research is that growing reliance on teamwork in organizations put pressure on leaders and managers to understand the factors that enable and stimulate team learning processes and activities, but also to identify and overcome all problems that may arise in teams and slow down the learning in teams as one of the most important processes.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document