self-managed work teams

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Competition in the corporate world has become increasingly high forcing many organizations to look on the ways in which they need to sustain their operations in the market . Different organizations have realized the importance of employees in the organization as an asset that needs to steer the organization ahead and stay in the competitive world . One way of ensuring this has been through the application of self managed work teams (SMWT ) in the organizations p

Employee empowerment has been a very important concept in making sure that the organization succeeds . With self managed work teams , employees are much empowered . In this , employees should not only be involved in some aspects of the organization , but should rather be able to make various decisions on their own . Employees who are found to make their own decisions are motivated to work and in the end will generally increase productivity within the organization . It has however to be noted that many company leaders do not like the idea of employee empowerment just for the sake of it , but rather would have to do it for the sake of competitive necessity . In such environments , it calls for the management to undertake dynamic and creative systems in the organization . The solution for this has always been pin pointing at the self managed work teams (Franz , 2004

Self managed work teams can be divided into two categories . The first being work teams and the second being...