Research Catalog

Title

Organizational design : a step-by-step approach / by Richard M. Burton, Gerardine DeSanctis, and Børge Obel.

Author

Burton, Richard M.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• DeSanctis, Gerardine.
• Obel, Børge.

Description

xv, 235 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. Its action-oriented approach helps the reader to assess and re-design the complex organizations of today, and plan for the information-rich organizations of tomorrow."--Jacket.

Subject

• Organization
• Corporate culture
• Psychology, Industrial
• Organizational Culture
• Psychology, Industrial
• Organization and Administration
• Organisationsgestaltung
• Organisationskultur
• Organisationspsychologie
• Gestion d'entreprise
• Planification stratégique
• Efficacité de l'organisation
• Comportement organisationnel
• Changement organisationnel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.

Contents

Step 1: Getting started. 1. Define the scope of the organization and assess its goals -- Step 2: Strategy. 2. Strategy -- 3. Environment -- Step. 3: Structure. 4. The configuration and complexity of the firm -- 5. Distributed organizations -- Step 4: Process and people. 6. Task design -- 7. People -- 8. Leadership and organizational climate -- Step 5: Coordination and control. 9. Coordination, control, and information systems -- 10. Incentives -- Applying the step-by-step approach in a dynamic world. 11. Design dynamics: managing change and multi-organizations.

ISBN

• 0521851769
• 0521617332
• 9780521851763
• 9780521617338

LCCN

• 2006296105
• 9780521851763
• 9780521617338

OCLC

• ocm62760952
• 62760952
• SCSB-1386754

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library