What Does it Take for a Startup Company to be a “Teal” Organisation? Case: Yogaia
Mikkonen, Mia-Riikka (2018)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018052810760
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018052810760
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The world is changing all the time, and the management and leadership styles are also moving in a new direction towards self-managed teams and participatory working style. The topic of this bachelor’s thesis aroused the author’s interest regarding future management and leadership styles, including especially the concept of “teal”. The thesis aims are to describe the teal organisation model and its characteristics, and to study how teal organisational characteristics work in practice.
The first aim was based on literature review concerning management and leadership theories and Laloux’s (2014) teal model and its colour classification system. The second aim was approached with a qualitative method. A case study in one Finnish startup company was made in autumn 2017. Seven employees answered the questionnaire.
All employees felt that they did not have just one leader but they work in teams. Most of the respondents thought that they make decisions together and the management style was team-oriented and participatory. The main key factors characterizing the management system were innovation, empowerment and self-management. The owners of the organisation gave them power and responsibility at least moderately.
The management and leadership characteristics of the teal organisation are certainly needed more in the future. More research work in this area is needed.
The first aim was based on literature review concerning management and leadership theories and Laloux’s (2014) teal model and its colour classification system. The second aim was approached with a qualitative method. A case study in one Finnish startup company was made in autumn 2017. Seven employees answered the questionnaire.
All employees felt that they did not have just one leader but they work in teams. Most of the respondents thought that they make decisions together and the management style was team-oriented and participatory. The main key factors characterizing the management system were innovation, empowerment and self-management. The owners of the organisation gave them power and responsibility at least moderately.
The management and leadership characteristics of the teal organisation are certainly needed more in the future. More research work in this area is needed.