Organizational Design
A Step-by-Step Approach
Published on 9. January 2006
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-521-85176-3 (ISBN)
Description
In today's volatile business environment, organizational design is a serious challenge for any manager, whether of a multinational enterprise or a small team. This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. All the key aspects of organizational design are covered, including goals, strategy, structure, process, people, coordination and control, and incentives. The text engages with critical issues affecting organisations, such as globalization, worldwide competition, deregulation and ever-new technologies, and contains many helpful features such as end-of-chapter reviews and unique step-by-step diagrams to orientate the reader in the design process. Diagnostic questions help the reader to determine the changes needed in an organization. The action oriented approach of this text helps the reader to assess and re-design the complex organizations of today, and plan for the information-rich organizations of tomorrow.
Reviews / Votes
'... covers all the key aspects of organisational design ... many helpful features ... This helps readers explore strategic and performance problems of organisational design.' BusinessexecutiveMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
12 Tables, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-85176-3 (9780521851763)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
08/2011
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€92.84
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Persons
Richard M. Burton is Professor of Management at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Gerardine DeSanctis is Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Borge Obel is Professor of Organization and Management and Rector of the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark.
Content
1. Define the scope of an organization and assess its goals; 2. Strategy; 3. Environment; 4. The configuration and complexity of the firm; 5. Distributed organizations; 6. Task design; 7. People; 8. Leadership and organizational climate; 9. Coordination, control and information systems; 10. Incentives; 11. Design dynamics: managing change and multi-organizations; References.