- Provides complete coverage of Organization Design, from design to delivery and addresses all the critical areas such as downsizing, outsourcing, job design, change management and re-structuring
- Practical approach shows you how to effectively deliver design in a way that is fit for purpose in line with the organization's goals
- Enables HR and internal project staff to manage organization design independent of external consultants who are not embedded in the business, thereby saving costs and ensuring continuity
Organization Design
A Guide to Building Effective Organizations
Build effective organisations through organisation design, with this comprehensive overview of all the critical areas including job design, sizing the organisation and change management.
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EAN: 9780749470593
Edition: 2
Published:
Format: 255x155
320 pages
About the book
With the rate of change in organizations at an all-time high, the need for strong organization design has never been more pressing. Organization Design provides a complete road map to building successful organizations through good organization design. It presents a practical process; a robust, broad-based model and a set of tools and techniques that all link together. Part One and Two together provide you with the knowledge of how to establish and run an organization design programme. Part Three covers how to respond to three perennial challenges in designing organizations.
This thoroughly revised edition of Organization Design includes an increased range of archetypes, a wide variety of international examples and coverage of additional ways to gain insight, such as through exploring metaphors and positive deviance. It is a practical toolkit to take organization designers from start to finish, outlining the basic theory, providing a step-by-step approach to implementation, and offering solutions to the recurring challenges that will inevitably be met along the way.
About the authors
Patricia Cichocki leads Design to Change. She has over 25 years' experience working in and advising international organizations and clients on organization design and change. She holds degrees from HEC Paris, Oxford University and University College London and is a member of the Organization Design Forum. Patricia was a founding director of the Change Leaders.
Christine Irwin retired in 2011 after a career that saw her become one of the UK's leading practitioners in organization design and implementation. The first edition of Organization Design is just part of that legacy. She was an elected board member of the US-based Organization Design Forum from 2001 to 2010 and holds degrees from Manchester Business School and Leeds University.
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