Stage 5 collaboration
To overcome the crisis of red tape, the organisation must move to the next evolutionary period the phase of collaboration. While the coordination phase was managed through formal systems and procedures, the collaboration phase leads to more freedom for management through teams and solving personal differences. Social control and self-discipline take over from formal control. Greiner is not certain what next revolution will be, but he thinks that employees will become exhausted by too much teamwork and heavy pressure for innovative solutions.