1. Differentiation is concerned with coordinating the efforts of employees.
2. Strategic work design can benefit an organization by assigning and coordinating tasks in ways that increase productivity.
3. Employees with more autonomy feel more responsibility for their work.
4. High autonomy is good for workers in an assembly line production type of work.
5. Workers with high autonomy are best at repetitive, clearly defined work.
6. Autonomy is critical in an organization which has sequential processing in its operations.
7. Giving workers more autonomy is a sure way to improve their performance.
8. Reciprocal processing works best in situations where work lacks prescribed plans or processes and team members must confer often to complete the work.
9. Teams perform best when members are able to work independently.
10. Groups perform better in a hybrid situation where some aspects of work encourage cooperation and other aspects discourage cooperation.