Self-managing Organizations and Change Management in the Czech Republic: How to Transform an Organization into a Self-managing one?

This thesis focuses on how an organizational change can be accomplished from a traditional bureaucratic organization to a self-managing organization. The aim of the thesis is to identify, analyse and evaluate what processes and tools organisations need to transform from a bureaucratic structure to a self-managing structure. Therefore, the theoretical part describes the evolution of organizations, defines self-managing organizations and organizational change. The practical part describes a case study method, which includes ten interviews, observations, and examinations of internal documents of three Czech organisations that have experienced an organizational change. The analysis of the research data suggests that organizational change must be customized to the nature of the organization. There is no one-size-fits-all guide for implementing a change, therefore an effective combination of change management tools is required.