Building Self-Managed Teams

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Self-managed teams are teams within an organization that are supervised by the team members themselves. This paper examines how, before implementing self-managed teams as a business strategy, organizations must first determine their purpose, their advantages, and how best to build and sustain them, to determine if it is an effective strategy for their unique organizational goals. As such, this paper reviews the current research on self-managed teams to determine these factors. In the end, this paper concludes that self-managed teams have a variety of purposes, have numerous advantages, and are fairly straightforward to build and sustain. The writer points out that these factors make self-managed teams a worthwhile endeavor for a variety of organizations hoping to gain a competitive advantage in their industry.

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"By implementing self-managed teams, organizations can replace their hierarchical thinking. Self-managed teams take the collective team's knowledge, skills, and motivation and turn it into a commanding synergistic tool for the organization. Self-managed teams, the researchers found, not only increased employee satisfaction with their work, but also increased employee commitment, improved management-employee communications, increased efficiencies, and reduced costs. (Rudolph & Sashkin, 2002)"

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