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Towards sustainable local welfare systems: The effects of functional heterogeneity and team autonomy on team processes in Dutch neighbourhood teams
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Towards sustainable local welfare systems
Get PDFNowadays, many European countries delegate health and social care responsibilities
from the national level to local authorities. In January 2015, the Netherlands similarly
introduced a policy programme authorising municipalities to set their own social welfare
policy. A specific feature of this programme is that it stimulates municipalities to
implement teams wherein professionals from different disciplines are collectively responsible
for a team’s decision‐making. This suggests that teams ideally have (a) high
levels of functional heterogeneity (professionals from different disciplines) and (b) high
levels of team autonomy (collective responsibility and decision‐making). Based on the
policy programme, it can be further assumed that (a) information elaboration, (b)
boundary management and (c) team cohesion in teams will improve. In practice, the
majority (87%) of Dutch municipal
Ursae Majoris [Yearbook] 1988
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