In order to respond to both change and complexity, most organisations are turning to new, more adaptive ways of doing their work, such as flatter organisational structures, more team orientated environments and greater support from technology. Higher organisational performance is being gained from empowered individuals working together jointly to contribute the best of their knowledge, skills and capabilities. Work-teams are said to be a defining feature of the post bureaucratic organisation, in which horizontal networks …showed first 75 words of 2377 total…

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