Designing Organizations

This text provides a comprehensive understanding of organizational design. It focuses on how to design more effective organizations by creating structures and processes that enable people in organizations to work effectively toward achievement of their goals. As global competition intensifies and as organizations face increasing cultural diversity, managers everywhere need to know how to design more effective organizations. This book emphasizes the view of organizational design as an emergent process. It shows how managers need to understand that they are neither all-powerful nor powerless to effect change. Rather, managers are in partial control of emerging processes that result in new organizational designs. The authors also stress the importance of global business management, cultural diversity, ethics and advanced production and information technologies throughout the text.