All successful companies, and these instruments are: 1) bonuses for successful work, which includes ability to resolve conflicts peacefully; 2) option to fire e

All successful companies, and these instruments are: 1) bonuses for successful work, which includes ability to resolve conflicts peacefully; 2) option to fire employees who don't work well, in particular, those who don't get along with the team and hire a replacement. > I've never seen one that had specific systems for keeping tensions in check It does not work perfectly, for sure. But in free-time opensource project, if you don't like something, you can always express this loudly, or just stop caring about this project, because leaving the opensource project is not a big deal. Unlike employment, when if you quit or fired, you get a lot of stress, you are seriously motiviated to get conflict resolved. Long time ago I read an interesting article about how hard is to be a manager in a terrorist organisation. You don't pay people money, at least not a lot, there's no contract, employees goal are likely very different from yours. They quit randomly, they do whatever they want, and it's hard to achieve some discipline. I think this is kind of similar environment as in open-source project (except, open-source contributers don't blow themselves up).