managementwithout
Managementwithout is a term used in organizational discourse to describe approaches that seek to minimize or eliminate formal management roles in favor of self-management, peer governance, and distributed decision-making. It refers to efforts to flatten hierarchies, increase transparency, and empower teams to coordinate work with limited central direction. The concept is often discussed as an umbrella for practices that replace or reduce traditional supervision with autonomous team structures.
Core features commonly associated with managementwithout include self-managed teams with clear purposes and boundaries, distributed decision
Origins and related ideas: managementwithout draws on broader movements toward agile, holacracy, and sociocracy, as well
Adoption considerations and limitations: critics point to potential coordination overhead, ambiguity in accountability, regulatory or compliance