How do work teams and self management change the nature of work place organisation, motivation and control?
Title: How do work teams and self management change the nature of work place organisation, motivation and control?
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 2377 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
How do work teams and self management change the nature of work place organisation, motivation and control?
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 2377 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
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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