B MGT 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Holarchy, Scalability
Holacracy: The Structure of Tomorrow
Holacracy
• Aims to depart from traditional command and control model
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• Increased innovation and productivity
• Scalability becomes spontaneous
Traditional Companies vs Holacracy
In Traditional Companies
• Job descriptions
o Each person has exactly one job. Job descriptions are imprecise, rarely updated, and
often irrelevant.
• Delegated Authority
o Managers loosely delegate authority. Ultimately, their decision always trumps others.
• Big Re-Orgs
o The org structure is rarely revisited, big reorganizations mandated from the top.
• Office Politics
o Implicit rules slo do hage ad faor people i the ko.
With Holacracy
• Roles
o Roles are defined around the work, not people, and are updated regularly. People
fill several roles.
• Distributed Authority
o Authority is truly distributed to teams and roles. Decisions are made locally.
• Rapid Iterations
o The org structure is regularly updated via small iterations. Every team self-organizes.
• Transparent Rules
o Everyone is bound by the same rules, CEO included. Rules are visible to all.
Holarchy
• a social technology or system of organizational governance in which authority and decision-
making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested
in a management hierarchy
• a hierarchy of self-regulating holons that function both as autonomous wholes and as
dependent parts.
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