Self Directed Work Teams at Texas Instruments.

Company Profile. Texas Instruments (TI) with more than 35,000 employees worldwide and annual sales around $3 billion, makes, markets and sells high-technology components; more than 30,000 customers all over the world buy TI products. TI has three separate business segments: 1) Semiconductor; 2) Sensors & Controls; and 3) Educational & Productivity Solutions. Semiconductor is by far the largest of these business segments. It accounted for over 85 percent of revenue in 2004, and over time it averages a higher growth rate …

…is to resist. Proponents of change must keep a constant vigil against subterfuge aimed at derailing the team initiative. * Appropriate Incentives: One of the most effective means of promoting all of these efforts is to develop incentive structures that reward the right behaviors and undermine resistance to change. Pay-for-knowledge, pay-for-performance, excellence awards, business performance scorecards, job performance evaluations -- any or all of these programs can provide strong incentives that support the self-directed team concept.