Journal of Global Economics, Management and Business Research

TASK AND COMPETENCE BASED TEAM COMPOSITION AND TEAMWORK- ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF AUXILIARY STAFF INTEGRATION IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES

JOSEF NEUERT

Faculty of Business, Fulda University, Germany.

CHRISTOPH STAITA *

Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Latvia, Latvia.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to reveal cause effect relations between the integration of auxiliary staff in the execution phase of variant construction projects within a 3D CAD (Three Dimensional Computer Aided Design) environment and economic and socio-psychological efficiency project outcomes. The analysis starts with the engineering environment, best described with the theories of job enrichment, driven by SW-developments (Software) to reduce personnel costs. The result is a job profile, in which the engineer is not only responsible for transforming information about the requirements for a new product into the information necessary to produce the new product but also executing all related activities to make the new product producible. In opposite to this situation the authors are elaborating their novel model of a coherent, task related integration of auxiliary staff in New PD (New Product Development) processes. Data obtained from 130 interviews with professionals reveal the hypothesized increase of economic and socio-psychological efficiency by using the model within the delimited area.

Keywords: New product development, economic/socio-psychological efficiency, division of labour, teamwork, modern product development methods, task satisfaction, SW- forced job enrichment

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