Work

Enforcement vs. freedom of action an integrated approach to flexible workflow enactment

Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: The advantages of today's process management, such as efficiency and quality aspects, are achieved by enforcing detailed models of work processes. However, real world processes can be planned to a limited degree only and sometimes planned parts of the process must be changed, creating a need for additional, unforeseen activities. In this paper, this contradictory situation is tackled by an approach that combines different forms of enforcement of planned parts of a process. The explicit modelling of these different support strategies allows them to be changed if demanded by the situation. An extended enactment strategy gives workers the opportunity to negotiate about changing the current support strategy, giving scope for deviations from the planned process where additional actions are required.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2042532629
FWCI: 0.802
Cites: 5
Cited by: 14
Related to: 10