Self-Directed Team

Description of Self-directed Team. Explanation.

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Definition Self-Directed Team. Description.

A Self-Directed Team is a small group of employees who are empowered to manage themselves and the work they do on a day-to-day basis. The members of such a team are usually responsible for designing/defining, managing and carrying out a whole process, product or service.

Some people make a difference between Self-direction and Self-managing, in which a Self-Managed Team is a group of people working together in their own ways toward a common goal which is defined outside the team, and a Self-Directed Team is a group of people working together in their own ways toward a common goal which the team defines.

Also called: Autonomous Work Group, Self-Directing Teams

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  			   Mere - NZ
  	       
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  	  		 "Are Self Directed Teams only referring to a group of WORKING people or could they be any kind of teams?"
  			   
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  			   Vivian - Nigeria
  	       
  		     Issues with Self Directed Teams
  	  		 "What are the issues with Self directed teams?"
  			   
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  			   habeeb - sudan
  	       
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  	  		 "realy i confused by this because i know that there is self control that means to assign one to do job and let him control himself 
is self directed team  differs from this, if possible please make more definition to let us know the differences"
  			   
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