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This book highlights the growing number of ‘post-bureaucratic’ firms that are abandoning hierarchical organizational forms in favor of self-managing teams. Addressing the need to outperform, these new organization types foresee the benefits of an organic structure with new and more indirect forms of control, and aim to coordinate the activities of highly-skilled workers without relying on a bureaucratic superstructure. The chapters explore the tensions that exist between external and internal institutional forces. As new forms of control strategies emerge, mostly value-based, this book accounts for the cognitive categories, conventions, rules and logic that should be integrated and combined with traditional forms of managerial controls in order to enable co-existence with established bureaucratic frameworks. This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of organizational behavior and innovation management, and also practitioners and managers aiming to shift from a traditional hierarchical structure to post-bureaucratic forms.

Self-directed work teams. --- Self-directed work groups --- Self-managing work groups --- Self-managing work teams --- Business. --- Leadership. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Manpower policy. --- Management information systems. --- Office management. --- Business and Management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Enterprise Architecture. --- Human Resource Development. --- Office Management. --- Teams in the workplace --- Office administration --- Management --- Employment policy --- Human resource development --- Labor market --- Labor market policy --- Manpower utilization --- Labor policy --- Labor supply --- Trade adjustment assistance --- Organisation --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Government policy --- Communication systems --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization