When American Greetings Corporation, the Cleveland greeting card and licensing company, redesigned about 100 jobs in its
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When American Greetings Corporation, the Cleveland greeting card and licensing company, redesigned about 100 jobs in its creative division, it asked workers and managers to reapply for the new jobs. Everyone was guaranteed a position and no one took a pay cut. When the structuring is complete, employees will develop products in teams instead of in assembly-line fashion, and they'll be free to transfer back and forth among teams that make different products instead of working on just one product line, as they have in the past. Give some reasons that you think American Greetings, like many U.S. companies, is restructuring its work to be performed in teams. Would the teams at American Greetings be considered self-managed work teams? Why or why not?
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Managing Human Resources
ISBN: 9780135196007
9th Edition
Authors: Luis Gomez-Mejia, David Balkin, Kenneth Carson