Organization design is part of every manager and leaders job: attempting to understand and improve how organizations function through creating or adjusting of roles processes and structures. In fact most managers are faced with organization design
Organization design is part of every manager & leaders job: attempting to understand & improve how organizations function through creating or adjusting of roles processes & structures. In fact most managers are faced with organization design challenges on an almost daily basis.
Managers constantly design & redesign individual roles define new projects (including their structure & reporting relationships) & contemplate better ways to co-ordinate organizational processes with multiple internal stakeholders. Periodically they may also make more fundamental changes to business structures or adapt & implement high-level designs developed by others.
This textbook introduces concepts & frameworks for designing complex organizations. It starts by outlining some of the key concepts that serve as a foundation to understanding how the theory applies in practice. It also reviews the status of organisation design
- as a field of research & as a practical discipline
- both its achievements & some of its challenges & limitations. It then discusses how the field can develop to ensure that it provides research-based & useful knowledge that contributes to enhancing the effectiveness of organizations.