Organization Design

The Practitioner's Guide

Naomi Stanford

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138293199
• eBook ISBN: 9781351867061
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value, and provides the knowledge and methodology to design an adaptive, agile organization capable of handling the kind of continuous organizational change that all businesses face. The book clarifies why and how organizations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign, and emphasizes that people as well as business processes must be part of design considerations.

With an enhanced international focus, this third edition includes new material on:

• organization design theories
• designing ethical, diverse and inclusive organizations
• the role of leaders in organization design work
• organization design in public sector organizations
• and evaluating the success of an organization design project

This book is a must-read for students or practitioners involved in organizational design, development and change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of activities
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 What is organization design?
• 2 Organization design, development and change
• 3 Practitioner attributes, skills and roles
• 4 Starting
• 5 Designing
• 6 Planning to transition
• 7 Transitioning
• 8 Optimizing
• 9 Leading, communicating and engaging
• Glossary
• Resources
• Index