The traditional approach to job design has been to focus on individual jobs. But the trend is toward designing jobs for work teams. Having teams design their own jobs is a form of job enrichment. Two common types of work teams used to design jobs are integrated teams and self-managed teams. With integrated work teams, the manager is primarily responsible for job design of team members, and the manager can use job simplification or job expansion.

Self-managed work teams are assigned a goal, and the team members plan, organize (design their jobs), lead, and control to achieve the goal. Teams commonly elect their own members and evaluate each other’s performance.