Assembly Line Approach

The issue of whether a team approach in an assembly line job will positively affect production is a controversial one but a closer examination reveals that it is very difficult to implement a successful team-based approach.

Although under the concept of intrinsic motivation, this approach has several advantages because it reduces the boredom associated with performing repetitive tasks and makes the workers more knowledgeable and involved about the product being manufactured, the team approach is not very promising using the team and individual pay for performances concepts and the specialization concept.

Using the concept of team pay for performance, the team approach will be unlikely to deliver good results for several reasons:

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