Which of the following types of teams has the most freedom in making decisions about the execution of tasks and about the team itself?
A) self-managing teams
B) autonomous work groups
C) traditional work groups
D) high-performance work teams
E) self-designing teams
E) self-designing teams
Explanation: Autonomous work groups control decisions about and execution of a complete range of tasks, and they are fully responsible for an entire product or an entire part of a production process. Self-designing teams do all of that and go one step further: they also have control over the design of the team.
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