ABSTRACT
Placed on a ‘scale of compositeness’, the two longwalls compared in the previous chapter represent the extremes. A scale of compositeness would range from a strictly conventional organization with one-task—one-shift roles and no inter-change between task groups, to a fully composite organization with multi-task— multi-shift roles and completely free interchange between task groups. We shall now compare two composite longwalls, one of which—that used in the previous chapter—was closer to the composite end of the scale than the other.
