BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Autonomous Work Group

  • a small group of people who are empowered to manage themselves and the work they do on a day-to-day basis. The members of an autonomous work group are usually responsible for a whole process, product, or service, and not only perform the work but also design and manage it.
  • Also known as Self-managing Team

Additional Resources

Building Teams To Self-Manage And Grow
From the executive summary: ‘Self-directed teams sometimes called self-managed teams, empowered work units, or autonomous work teams function in their truest sense without supervisory authority. Team members are interdependent, but the role of supervisor usually is missing. A self-directed team is as much a team as any other, but it...
Tags: Team, Supervisor, Team Member, Team Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
A Basic Study on Autonomous Characterization of Square Array Machining Cells for Agile Manufacturing
In this study, a manufacturing system locating machining cells in a square array is considered as an agile manufacturing system that can cope with a variety kinds production with varying volumes. Each cell can process any work whose machining operations for each work are divided into some operation groups common...
Tags: Institute For Operations Research, Cell, Manufacturing
White papers 2000-11-13
Proxy Aviation Named ''Most Promising Newcomer'' by Unmanned Vehicles Magazine; General Atomics, The Insitu Group and Boeing also Honored at the Shephard Group's UV North America Conference and Exhibition
GERMANTOWN, Md. -- Proxy Aviation Systems, Inc., a company that develops fully autonomous, optionally piloted unmanned aircraft systems UAS, announced that it has been named the Most Promising Newcomer of 2005 by Unmanned Vehicles Magazine for its work on SkyWatcher, an optionally piloted, unmanned aircraft UA designed for intelligence, surveillance...
Tags: Boeing Co.
Research articles 2005-12-05
China commits 70 million dollars to preserve Tibet culture: group
WASHINGTON AFP — China has agreed to commit 70 million dollars to an international fund for preservation of culture in Tibet, according to a global non-profit group which is part of the agreement. The money will be used to support important cultural infrastructure projects in the Tibet autonomous region,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, agreement, Beijing, China, Globalization, Strategy, Tibet
Research articles 2008-06-06
Arnold Lays Off 40; Staffers Vent Anger Over Shop's Identity Crisis
Arnold Worldwide announced 40 layoffs in its Boston HQ office, which has 600 staffers. That round of cuts comes after just under 50 layoffs in October. The move has triggered an outpouring of bitterness on Adweek's comments boards. (Note that Adweek.com continues its evolution from provider...
Tags: Agency, VW, Boston, Arnold Worldwide, Industry Perception, Shack, Tyson, David Jones Oversight, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-03-11
Interview: Razorfish CEO Bob Lord: Ready To Think About Buying?Not Being Bought
Publicis Groupe's $530 million acquisition of Razorfish from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) was anticipated for over a month, but the interactive shop's CEO Bob Lord tells paidContent it wasn't a done deal until about two weeks ago. The Paris-based ad holding company bested a higher bid from Japan's Dentsu as...
Tags: Acquisition, Publicis Groupe S.A., Razorfish, Microsoft Corp., Bob Lord, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Companies, Microsoft, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-10
Geely bid for Volvo favoured by Ford
Ford Motor yesterday named a consortium headed by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co as the preferred bidder for its Volvo Swedish brand, bringing the Chinese carmaking group a step closer to buying it. Ford gave no price for Geely's bid, but two people familiar with it said the privately held...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., Volvo
News items 2009-10-30
Heritage Sells Fields to Eni
By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters UK) - Explorer Heritage Oil said it had agreed to sell its Ugandan interests to Italy's Eni for up to $1.5 billion (905 million pounds) as the Italian oil major builds its presence in Africa through acquisitions. Heritage, whose other main assets are undeveloped fields...
Tags: region, Tullow Oil Plc.
News items 2009-11-23