chpt1 Case
chpt1 Case
chpt1 Case
Answer:
A holacracy is a system for managing a company where there are no assigned roles and
employees have the flexibility to take on various tasks and move between teams freely.
Question-2: What benefits do you see to an organization where there are no job
titles, no managers, and no hierarchy?
Answer:
Benefits:
• Fast decision making is a result because the decision makers are closest to the value
• Team members typically have a higher level of engagement because they are involved
• Each circle is a team with a charge. They work together to accomplish the mission of
the team.
• Another benefit is that is puts more power in the hands of the workers who probably
know the details of the job better than a manager to work more thoroughly and
efficiently.
Answer:
big company (more than 50 people it already makes hard). Zappos (1600 people) for
It is not just different meeting practices, change people’s habits and some basic
• It might change the organizational culture in way organization doesn’t want. For
example: Organizations that value intuition over reasoning and always work with a lot
of consensus have to drop those traits. Holacracy values reasoning and hates
consensus. It works with consent for a very small sub set of decisions
• It messes with people professional identity, because it means saying good bye to job
titles and makes some perks seems more unjust than ever. So some people during the
transition are bound to have a hard time and leave the company.
• Holacracy doesn’t solve a lot of issues, like bad leadership, failing business models
and low trust. Actually it helps to bring those things in to surface so the organization
can adapt. So in a sense, I might be the last drop that make a company go bust if it
doesn’t have sufficient time and energy to learn Holacracy and make the adjustments.
Question-4: Discuss why you would or would not like to work in an organization like this.
Answer:
I personally would not like to work in an organization like this going to inevitably cause an
uneven distribution of work among coworkers. Another reason is because the lack of leadership
in this program. All the successful businesses today have a structure of hierarchy and I believe
that when there is a group of people working towards a common goal, there needs to be a person
that “takes the reigns” and lead everyone to the end goal.