Teal Organizations: Literature Review and Future Research Directions

Abstract

Purpose: The article is a review aimed at presenting the concept of and available knowledge on teal organizations and at indicating further research objectives. Methodology: Research methods employed in the study included a systematic review of the literature, along with its critical analysis and logical deduction. Findings: The analysis shows that teal management-based on self-organization-may prove to be an opportunity for companies to adapt to changing circumstances. The teal organization concept is a true revolution in modern management, as it rejects all systems and previously immutable rules of the business world. The subject requires further empirical research. Research limitations: Limitations apply to both the concept of teal organizations itself and the literature review. Since the teal organization concept was established in 2015, there is a lack of reviews and scientific studies or in-depth empirical research on this topic. Thus, the articles included in the review do not exhaust the issue. Implications: The issues discussed in the article require further scientific research, primarily empirical. The said research should cover various aspects, such as building a culture of trust and self-organization, leadership (3.0), management through values, and new management methods. Value: This is the first publication in this field that falls within this research gap. This study constitutes a significant contribution to the development of research on the concept of teal organizations.

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the zebras are teal tonight: investigating the organizational forms of Generation Z-driven Italian start-ups

“…Self-management thus provides a holacracy-like approach (Bernstein et al, 2016), whereby each employee becomes an entrepreneur in his or her own role. This autonomy meets two specific conditions: the decision-making process is highly distributed throughout the organization (Wyrzykowska, 2019), and the flow of information is fully accessible (Bondarouk et al, 2018). The second key value is evolutionary purpose: teal organizations aspire to the highest concretization of their mission, the pursuit of strategic positioning in the community and market in which they operate, going far beyond the competitive mechanism of competition (Borowiecki et al, 2021;Moreno Romero et al, 2020).…”

“…, 2020; Rzepka et al. , 2021; Wyrzykowska, 2019). Finally, it is of critical importance to study the leadership and organizational practices adopted by Generation Z (Barhate and Dirani, 2022), and in general there is a need to understand more about Generation Z in the workplace (Chillakuri, 2020).…”

Organisational Innovation in Bureaucracies: An Impossible Mission?

“…Organisational innovation; complexity theory; evolutionary organisations; Public Administration; public sector performance To address complexity in public organisations, this research used the conceptual framework developed by Laloux (2014) in his investigation about 'evolutionary-Teal organisations'. That is also one of the major contributions of the research, as there is hardly any reference to this framework in the literature (Wyrzykowska, 2019), and its application to the public sector is even scarcer.…”

Correlation of Evolutionof IT-Environment With Levels of Organizational Development: Reaching Teal-Level Maturity Through Losses Elimination

“…The combination of these practices indicates a fundamentally new evolutionary stage in organizational development [9], which requires a reconsideration of approaches also in related evolutionary environments, in this case in the IT-environment.…”