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Business Administration QUESTION #9586
Question 1
Reinventing Organizations (Laloux's framework) describes a shift toward 'Teal' organizations characterized by self-management, wholeness and evolutionary purpose. Which conventional management principle is most fundamentally challenged by the Teal model?
  • Fayol's principle of division of labour — Teal organizations use generalist teams rather than specialized functions
  • Weber's principle of hierarchical authority and unity of command — Teal organizations distribute authority through self-managing teams without positional hierarchy✔️
  • Taylor's principle of scientific management — Teal organizations reject time-and-motion optimization in favour of intrinsic motivation
  • Maslow's principle of need hierarchy — Teal organizations assume all employees are already self-actualized and require no motivational management
Correct Answer Explanation
Laloux's Teal model most directly challenges Weberian bureaucracy's hierarchical authority structure. In Teal organizations, no one has positional power over others — decisions are made by those closest to the work through advice processes, not by managers in a chain of command. This fundamentally inverts Weber's defining characteristic of bureaucracy (hierarchy of authority) and Fayol's scalar chain.