Team Management Synergy

Abstract

In this post‐industrial period of human development, traditional organisational models and managerial styles are gradually being replaced. They are inadequate and unproductive with the new knowledge workers. Therefore, a major transition is underway in social systems from “disappearing bureaucracies” to “emerging ad‐hocracies”. In these turbulent times, leaders facilitate the transcendence from past to futuristic operations by promoting matrix or team management approaches. Whether the strategy is called a project, task force, product or business systems team or ad‐hoc planning committee, work is organised around a “temporary” group that involves both permanent (functional) and impermanent lines of authority. Such endeavours at organisational alteration and design are bridges from the way we have been doing work to the way we will be conducting human enterprise in the decades ahead.

Citation

Harris, P.R. (1984), "Team Management Synergy", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 17-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053543