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Self‐Managed Work Teams: an innovation whose time has come?
Author(s) -
Banner David K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8691.1993.tb00066.x
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , bureaucracy , paradigm shift , key (lock) , consciousness , work (physics) , organizational change , sociology , epistemology , knowledge management , business , psychology , public relations , political science , social psychology , computer science , philosophy , engineering , mechanical engineering , computer security , politics , law
Self‐managed work teams (SMWTs) may be an early manifestation of the changing paradigm of organization. A key tenet of transformational theory is that consciousness creates external, structural forms which represent beliefs, values and attitudes inherent in the dominant paradigm. Previous paradigmatic assumptions of the Industrial Era created the bureaucracy; transformational thinking (the new, emerging paradigm) is creating newer organizational structures such as SMWTs.