The great range of products from external enterprises puts the costumer in the position of being able to choose
from several offerings for the same product. It changed the current vision of economy to that in which the market,
and not the companies, dictates the laws of consumption. Traditional concepts outlined by Taylor and Ford at the
beginning of the century based on individualized work for the pursuits of productivity were insufficient [1]. The
adoption of semi-autonomous work teams, even called self-management teams or self-directed work teams, by
world-class companies shows that such hypotheses are being abandoned. A simplified project management
method [2] was applied for the change management and it was revealed a good tool for both monitoring and
controlling the change. This work is a result of 9 years of research-action methodology applied to a selfmanagement
cell and accomplished the implementations of self-directed work teams