Middle and senior management Most senior and middle managers, as well as people in staff functions, will view the transition to self-management as a threat (at least at first). Don’t expect them to embrace self-management with hoorays. In the best of cases, they will lose only their hierarchical power. More likely, they will have to find themselves a new job within the organization or outside it, because their function will disappear altogether. FAVI, for instance, used to have up to five levels of hierarchy; today it operates with only the CEO “above” the self-managing teams. Unsurprisingly,
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