Search Results for: Organisational Design

I like the title and the structure a lot, it gives a strong feeling of combining strong factual base with concrete advice/principles. There are several aspects that I feel I need to learn more about after reading the first chapter and that I believe is a good sign! - It

The first in the readers' series called Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge Management and Organizational Design is a unique compilation of articles and book excerpts that describe how the management of an organization shapes the levels of knowledge transfer, innovation and learning. The collection draws on fifty years of

Companies face two main challenges in the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives (VSIs): They recognise acceptance problems by different strategic stakeholders and opposition by competing initiatives and experience significant resource demands needed to set up VSIs and ask for more efficient solutions.

Business failure is not limited to start ups. In America alone between 1990 and 2000, there were over 6.3 million business start-ups and over 5.7 million business shut-downs. Risk of failure can be greatly reduced through effective organisational design that encourages high performance and adaptability to changing circumstances. Organisation design

Contents: Introduction, Organization Design, Departmentation, Span of Management, Forms of Organization Structure, Delegation of Authority, Centralization and Decentralization, Line and Staff Relationships, Job Design, Quality of Work Life & Quality Circles, Organizational Change, Organizational Diagnosis and Effectiveness, Organizational Development, Cases, Readings.