CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO TEAM MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEW
Abstract
The article examines the evolution of team management approaches under conditions of digitalization, globalization, and environmental instability, emphasizing the need for interdisciplinary and reflexive models that integrate managerial, psychological, and biobehavioral components. Modern organizations increasingly operate in fast-paced and volatile environments where traditional hierarchical models are losing their effectiveness. In this context, flexible interdisciplinary approaches become essential for aligning collective efforts, ensuring adaptability, and making strategic decisions. The article explores how biologically grounded models – viewing the organization as a living adaptive system – combine with Lean philosophy, complementarity-based team design, and reflective management principles to form a new paradigm of teamwork in VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) conditions. The study highlights that team decisions incorporating both classical managerial functions and contemporary advances in neuroscience and behavioral biology foster the creation of resilient and cognitively diverse teams. Key factors include psychological safety, individual cognitive styles, and reflexive processes that contribute to high-performing, self-regulated team dynamics. Particular attention is given to the role of stress-resilience mechanisms that influence trust and cohesion within teams. The research also evaluates agile methodologies such as Scrum, Lean, Agile, and Kanban, demonstrating their impact on team autonomy, adaptability, and decision-making under pressure. Findings suggest that effective team management requires the application of interdisciplinary frameworks that account not only for structural and organizational aspects but also for the psychophysiological traits of team members. Reflexive tools – including structured feedback, team retrospectives, and neuroadaptive leadership practices – are shown to enhance learning capacity, innovation potential, and collective emotional regulation. In Ukrainian contexts, where uncertainty and systemic shocks are acute, the adoption of such approaches is critical to ensuring sustainable and adaptive organizational performance. Thus, the article contributes to the development of a comprehensive understanding of modern team management that bridges scientific disciplines and practical demands.
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