Definition
Forms of process-oriented work organisation and effectively usable means for improving operational performance, for improved utilisation of operating resources, for realising versatile tasks that use or strengthen employee qualifications and for cooperation. Their planning and design requires meaningful work data in order to be able to determine, for example, the possible size of the work systems, the number of employees and equipment that can be used, as well as the work sequence in an appropriate and work-promoting manner. They place special demands on the user-friendly arrangement of equipment and operating points in the work system to limit walking distances.
When determining the corresponding work data, a distinction must be made between:
- Group work with common flow sections - all group members perform each flow section together.
- Group work with partly common process sections - at least two group members carry out individual process sections together.
- Group work without common process sections - the tasks of the work system are performed jointly by the group members as a whole, whereby the group members determine in self-organisation who performs which process sections. The tasks to be carried out do not have to be related to each other in terms of content, and tasks that are independent of the order, such as "maintaining the system", can be assigned.
Group work with an unpredictable sequence - the tasks to be carried out comprise a few sections, the sequence of which is not predetermined..
Bettina Dirks
