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Managing High Performance Work Systems and Organizational Performance

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Workplace is primarily a social environment and value is created not by machines or computers but by people who operate them. Thus, high performance work systems should allow individuals to experience greater autonomy over their tasks and particularly self-managed teams are useful where a group of individuals can all together plan, organize and control their tasks without the need for micromanagement. However, forming up and maintaining self-managed teams to achieve highest performance has always been a managerial concern but has never been easy.

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Berber, A., Yaslioglu, M. (2014). Managing High Performance Work Systems and Organizational Performance. In: Machado, C., Davim, J. (eds) Work Organization and Human Resource Management. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06376-8_2

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