How peer coaching fosters employee proactivity and well-being within a self-managing Finnish digital engineering company

Natalia Fey*, Emma Nordbäck, Mats Ehrnrooth, Kirsi Mikkonen

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Pressure is increasing on traditional organizations to transform by moving away from old hierarchical structures towards more self-management in order to respond to nimble and agile entrepreneurial ventures and start-ups. In order for organizations to succeed in such transformations we need to know more about how radically self-managing organizations function, and what makes employees thrive and struggle in such settings. In this paper, we delve into an innovative peer coaching system used by Nitor, a self-managing digital engineering company, which challenges the mainstream belief how profitable companies should be organized and managed. In our study we explore the key characteristics of this peer coaching system, the mechanisms through which it enables employee proactivity and well-being, the key organizational outcomes and the challenges of successfully implementing it. The study suggests that peer coaching is especially helpful in self-managing firms as it is able to replace some of the key roles that middle management plays in traditional organizations.
OriginalspråkEngelska
Artikelnummer100864
Referentgranskad vetenskaplig tidskriftOrganizational Dynamics
Antal sidor13
ISSN0090-2616
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2022
MoE-publikationstypA1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift

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