Paraphrase The sts approach is associated with self-managed teams. These groups are composed of members performing interrelated tasks. Members are given the multiple skills, autonomy, and information necessary to control their own task behaviors with relatively little external control. Many OD practitioners argue that self-managed teams represent the work design of 2000s because of high levels of technical uncertainty and interdependence are prevalent in today's workplaces and because todays workers often have high growth and social needs