ABSTRACT
Illustrative of the distinctiveness of its constituent task groups and its general structural complexity is the example set out in Table 4 of the cutting longwall cycle aggregate, which is further discussed in Chapter XIII. The principal difficulty in operating such a system stems from the need to integrate the miscellaneous collection of segregated task groups into an overall organization for the performance of a cycle, which, technologically, is an interdependent whole. The more each task group is built up round its own paynote, the more it tends to acquire a goal of its own. Separated still further from other groups by differences in psychological climate, social character, internal structure, and method of recruitment, each relates the cycle to itself rather than itself to the cycle. Longwall task groups have been placed by the structure of the conventional system in a situation which invites them to be primarily concerned with improving their own position.
