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Build processes that drive success
A concise guide to creating a superior, more competitive organization. Based on ten years of research, Designing Organizations shows how organization design supports policies, affects behaviors and impact performance. It also tells what leaders can and must do to affect the process. Examples from such successful companies as HewlettPackard, Apple, MCI, McDonalds and Citibank demonstrate outstanding design in action. The author analyzes the four key forces that shape todays organizations buyer power, variety, change and speed and outlines concrete methods for designing a stateoftheart organization that facilitates effective, rapid response to customer demands.
Synopsis
Galbraith's theory, which consists of effective organizational design beginning with strategy which determines direction, is documented in this text. The rewards systems produces the motivation to perform and the people (human resource) practice influence and often define the employees mindset and skills. Drawing on over ten years of research, the author cites examples of such successful companies as Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer, to show how organization design supports policies, behaviours and performance, and tells what leaders can and must do to effect the process.
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