Full Description
Designing Organizations: 21st Century Approaches is a benchmark publication in the field of organization design. The recent development in organization design has been sporadic; hence, this book will be an important step in creating more thoughtful research and stronger empirical analyses that take advantage of advances in estimation methods allowing for more complex causal modeling and stimulation technologies.
Featured in the book are the more practical elements of implementing OD in organizations. The chapter material is organized into five sections: (1) Putting Contingency Theory in its Place, (2) Focus on Individuals who make up the Organization, (3) Innovation Processes and Organization Design, (4) Adaptation and Technology, and (5) Design for Performance. The book will be a broad discussion of topics in the field, but still each individual chapter will provide in-depth analysis of the topic.
Contents
I: Contingency, Institutional, and Evolutionary Theory.- The Conflict Between Contingency and Institutional Theories of Organizational Design.- Resolving the Conflict Between Contingency and Institutional Theories of Organizational Design.- Comparing Evolutionary and Contingency Theory Approaches to Organizational Structure.- II: The Design of Organizational Processes.- Rational Emotionality: Integrating Emotions into Psychological Climate.- Organizing for Asymmetric Collaboration.- Asymmetric Adaptability of Team Designs: Change and Back Again.- Tstrive for Greater Efficiency and Effectiveness within a Human Resources Division.- III: Innovation: Overcoming Inertia and Conflicts.- Opening up the Innovation Process.- Doing a While Hoping for B?.- IV: Firm Performance.- Will Modular Products and Organizations Improve Lead-Time in Product Development?.- Strategic Planning and Firm Performance.- Erratum.
