Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription

ISBN-13: 9780387258478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 484 str.

Helmy H. Baligh

Opis

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is done by way of establishing sets of rules from "real world" organization contexts. Moreover, the development of these rules within "real world" contexts means that the rules must be true, general, operational, technically sound, and easy to use. With an understanding of rules and the processes of their use, organization structures can be identified, which in turn form the basis of a theoretical framework. From this theoretical framework, generalized design rules are identified that can be used to design structures with specific purposes. An efficient design of organization structure(s) will result when design rules along with their use are inextricably tied to the structural components and with what these structures propose to do. The book discusses, examines, and demonstrates the interrelationship of the design rules, their use within organization structures theoretically and along with their practical implications. Throughout the book an extended example of the Masters Brewing Corporation (MBC) is used to illustrate the conceptual material and to make the implications of the organizational analysis explicitly concrete. "

Spis treści

Structure, Performance, Cost, and Outcome.- Organization Structures.- Properties of the Organization Structure.- Structures: Connections, Consistency and Cost.- Properties of Transformations, Environments and Structure Performance.- Analytic Mappings: From Substructure Performance and Environments to Outcomes.- Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part One.- Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part Two.- The Efficiency of the Design Process.- Design Mappings: Design Rule Derivation and Use.- Design Rules for Organization Structure Performance Properties.- Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part A.- Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part B.- A Useful Process of Design.