Introduction of self-management in organizations and teams : a multiple case analysis (original) (raw)
More and more organizations are decentralizing authority and experimenting with new management approaches. Although, self-management as a management approach for teams and organizations has been applied over decades, research on the experiences of employees working with this approach is scarce. As many organizations and teams use individual approaches to self-management, the question of what experiences they have in common arises. The research objectives of this study were to identify the key topics for employees when switching to self-management and to identify the main benefits and challenges of the change to self-management for teams and organizations. To meet the research objectives a qualitative multiple case study approach was chosen. The research was based on interviews with employees of two organizations in Germany that implemented self-management over one year ago. One implemented self-management in just one team and the other for the whole organization. The semi-structured...
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