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flat management and team structures

Read and summarise text handout P256 on New Organisational influences New organisational behavioural influences (behavioural management theory) - flat management structures and the team approach are key influences on employment relations. -flat management -firms encouraging worker participation tend to have fewer industrial relations problems -businesses are transforming from centralised pyramid structures to flatter structures that are more responsive, adaptable management and networks of self-managing teams which encourage innovation and ↑ productivity. -a number of job techniques have been developed as alternative motivational strategies eg job enlargement (adding extra tasks), job rotation and job enrichment -ER varies from the traditional hierarchy as employees have a greater role in determining their conditions of work. -best practice organisations are becoming ‘learning organisations’ which develop employees to utilise their key competencies to maintain competitiveness in the market -team structures -types of team structures: · Self managing work or project teams · Quality circles. -in these employees share management functions of planning, rostering, scheduling (the sequence of tasks that need to be done) and evaluating their own performances. -teams offer greater flexibility in the workforce and create opportunities for empowerment and leadership and costs are reduced due to process improvements (productivity) being undertaken and productivity and responsiveness to customer requirements are improved.

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