Self-Management, Entrepreneurial Culture, and Economy 4.0

This book offers practical insight into the changing ways in which organizations operate today. Building on a groundbreaking concept of teal organizations, the book illustrates the practicality of advocating a lack of hierarchy of predetermined positions and the introduction of roles that come with clear responsibilities constantly defined according to current needs. First described by Frederic Laloux, a teal organization is a ground-breaking approach to managing organizations that is being adopted around the world, which turns everyone into a leader. This new paradigm rests on the ideas of wholeness, evolutionary purpose, employee autonomy, and self-management based on peer relationships. Its main assumption is the empowerment of the employee resulting in a change in workplace relationships and a more soulful and purposeful work environment. Drawing on the authors' research across six different countries, it presents the evolution of self-management and entrepreneurial culture in the current age of Economy 4.0 and examines how the teal concept has been implemented around the world. It examines misconceptions surrounding this novel approach and diagnoses the practical problems connected with implementing it in the current uncertain times. It will be of value to researchers, academics, managers, and students in the fields of management and organizational studies.

Agnieszka Rzepka is Professor at Lublin University of Technology, Poland. Zbigniew Olesinski is a Full Professor at Vistula University in Warsaw, Poland. Elzbieta Jedrych is a Professor of Management at Vistula Academy of Finance and Business, Poland.

1. The concept of teal organizations in view of Economy 4.0 and Integral Theory Agnieszka Rzepka, Ryszard Borowiecki, Zbigniew Olesinski 2. Components of Economy 4.0 as factors for sustainable development Juliusz Kotynski 3. Digital innovation and implementation of teal attributes in Industry 4.0 Agnieszka Rzepka, Maria Kocot, Anna Wisniewska 4. Role of Innovations in Development of Business Organizations Revaz Shengelia, Zhuzhuna Tsiklauri-Shengelia, and Natia Shengelia 5. Teal characteristics in enterprises engaged in municipal activities Elzbieta Jedrych, Dariusz Klimek 6. Necessity for dynamic business process management in Industry 4.0 Marek Szelagowski 7. Between teal organizations and teal business environment Jan Fazlagic 8. How creativity and agility support organizations toward teal management Agnieszka Faron, Wojciech Maciejewski, and Katalin Formadi 9. Inter-organization relationships on virtual level in terms of employee agility as determinant of Industry 4.0 era Damian Kocot, Piotr Wiench, Magdalena Maciaszczyk 10. Transformation of leadership model as determining element for development of teal organizations Justyna Oledzka, Stefan Marcinkiewicz 11. Evolution of organizational culture and structure in teal organizations Aneta Szymanska, Firoze Khan, and Pushpa Anant 12. National Culture based on Hofstede 6D model and development of teal organization - comparative analysis of chosen countries Marta Drozdowska, Krzysztof Nowakowski, and Magdalena Kaczkowska-Serafinska 13. Role of future work skills in light of values in teal organizations in IT sector on example of Polish IT company GroMar Marlena Plebanskä 14. Selected aspects of employee reliability in teal organizations Ludmila Stemplewska 15. Knowledge creation in teal organisations Agnieszka Rzepka and Anna Sabat 16. Accelerating creation of self-managing (teal) organizations through diversity and inclusion Elwira Gross-Golacka 17. Socio-economic development of countries and changes in functioning of organizations Marta Drozdowska, Izabela Gruszka, Dariusz Ilnicki 18. Development opportunities and challenges for organizations striving for teal in Economy 4.0 on basis of research Agnieszka Rzepka, Radoslaw Miskiewicz, Jakub Prachowski