Leading Organization Design by Welcome to the Systems and Organizational Design guide!
This page provides resources and links to information on organizational design, including a way to search the literature, a sampling of e-books, and tools to share your presentation. Here is a definition of organizational design:
The way in which managers structure their organization in order to achieve the organization's goals. The formal design of an organization is laid out in an organization, which indicates the duties, tasks, and responsibilities of both individuals and departments. Reporting relationships and the number of levels in the organization's hierarchy are other elements in the design. Organizational design has two basic functions:
• to ensure that information reaches the appropriate person to enable effective decisions to be made;
• to assist in the coordination of the interdependent parts of the organization.
Law, J. (2009). A Dictionary of Business and Management. New York: Oxford University Press.
Below are some key articles on Appreciative Inquiry, especially as it applies to organizational design.
The Appreciative Inquiry Handbook by Click the link above to launch a search for scholarly articles written since January, 2008 on organizational design across several EBSCO databases. When the search results come up, you can modify your search with other terms specific to your current situation (such as "change," "recruitment," etc.
The Eight P Healthy Workplace Design Mix (people, place, policy, practice, pay, positivity, progression, passion) can guide practitioners in shaping a workplace that promotes the physical and psychological health of its employees, on top of achieving exceptional performance.
