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The impact of ad hoc teams in the automobile industry

Tomás Bonavía MartínManuela Pardo-del-valJuan A. Marín García

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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementProcess managementbusiness.industryManagement of Technology and InnovationAutomotive industryIndustrial settingOperations managementBusinessManagement Information Systems

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of training on ad hoc teams in an industrial setting.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, data were collected from 11 Spanish automobile manufacturer suppliers and included the assessment of the current situation, the creation and holding of different workshops followed by the collection of the results.FindingsThe paper finds that ad hoc teams are really effective especially in lean companies.Originality/valueThis paper breaks new ground in analysing the effect of training ad hoc teams in an industrial setting.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-10-01Team Performance Management: An International Journal
https://doi.org/10.1108/13527590610711831