Team leaders are being given greater autonomy in evaluating and coaching the people who work for them. Furthermore, some of the functions traditionally doled out to HR departments are being decentralized.
Some of the advantages to this approach, according to the story, are the ability to provide HR departments with more reliable data and allowing them to identify and replicate outstanding employees and ideas. This approach, ultimately, will reshape the role of HR departments, essentially flipping its traditional role on its head.