Self-managing work teams that feel empowered: The key to high performing teams?

This case study brings together the view of academic literature, and the view of practice, e.g. business. In both worlds, a lot of questions exists concerning self-managing work teams and team empowerment, and their relation to team performance. Following this increased interest in these topics this research is framed around the following research question: "Are the conditions for self-managing work teams and team empowerment positively related to team performance?". This study is built on data subtracted from one disabled care organization, De Passerel, that changed their work teams into self-managing work teams around the start of 2016.