How do work teams and self management change the nature of work place organisation, motivation and control?
Date Submitted: 11/10/2004 21:57:37
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 9 pages (2377 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 9 pages (2377 words)
In order to respond to both change and complexity, most organisations are turning to new, more adaptive ways of doing their work, such as flatter organisational structures, more team orientated environments and greater support from technology. Higher organisational performance is being gained from empowered individuals working together jointly to contribute the best of their knowledge, skills and capabilities.
Work-teams are said to be a defining feature of the post bureaucratic organisation, in which horizontal networks …
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…democracy are merely empty words, simply tools of manipulation in the interest of traditional power.
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