each employee sole responsibility for re shelving a particular section of the library. Because the library's front desk employee sorted the books be section on the carts as they were returned, holding the shelves responsible for particular sections was easily accomplished.
Once the shelves knew the librarian could identify their effort or lack thereof, there were rarely any backlogs of books to be re shelved
For example, in a small security company, members of a self-managed work team who assemble control boxes for home alarm systems start each day by deciding who will perform which tasks that day and how much work each member know that, at the end of the day, the other team members will know exactly