Theoretical and methodological foundations of research of communicative processes in a self-managed work team are considered in the paper. The self-managed work team has been studied as a form of organisational self-management. Communication processes act as a foundation of management of social relations. Therefore, the study of communication processes is connected with the change of the structure of the team, the structure of communication, decentralization and complexity of tasks of self-managed work teams, which implies the necessity of free access to information and effective exchange with it. Analysis is conducted based on the study of models of teams, models of communication processes, as well as materials. The empirical sociological study is undertaken in the company “Lubimyi Krai” in 2009-2016. The paper includes a characteristic of the study; an interdisciplinary approach underlies the study. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the peculiarities of communication processes in the self-managed work team and to develop the directions of improvement the activity of self-managed work teams. General scientific methods and the methods of concrete-sociological studies are used in the paper. The authors of the paper provide analysis of the findings. It is possible to conclude that it is necessary to improve the process of introduction and formation of self-managed work teams as a form of organisational self-management, the programmes of lifelong coeducation of employees and tutorship, which allow involving the participants of the work team in the production of sociocultural models of behaviour.