This case study is about the horizontal management model developed and implemented at VAGAS, a Brazilian software company for the recruitment market, and its main underlying ideas.
The purpose of this project is to analyze the relationship between virtues, sense of humor and organizational outcomes and to propose a tentative framework of relationships.
We live in a world where never before has leadership been so necessary but where so often leaders seem to come up short. Our sense is that this is not really a problem of individuals; this is a problem of organizational structures—those traditional pyramidal structures that demand too much of too few and not enough of everyone else.
A stressed out small businessman learns, the hard way, the importance of a work place where people are energized and motivated by working the way that works for them.