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"If line employees are required to work on quality improvement activities, their productivity will suffer." Discuss and give examples.

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Line employees are usually employees who work on assembly lines in factories or on other processes who have one function that they are responsible for. Since they only have one function and perform it repetitively, they are able to accomplish their tasks pretty quickly. Thus, if they are also looking after the quality of development of the products or ...

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