Self-Management: Bliss Or Chaos?

Not so long ago, Web 2.0 revolutionised the internet. For the first time, monolithic web pages created by corporate institutions met dynamic, user-generated content, and social media began to shape the way we interact. New concepts and paradigms are now emerging in the workplace.

One such paradigm is the self-managed structure, in which the traditional hierarchy is replaced by employee autonomy and control.

Employees exert control over not just how and when they do their work (so they have unlimited holiday entitlement, in effect), but also what sort of work they want to undertake.

Employees in a self-managed structure can even choose how much they are paid, based on how much they think they have contributed to the organisation. The philosophy is that a distributed peer to peer system works better than a traditional centralised one.