Organizational design: a step-by-step approach

Table of Contents
Step 1. Getting Started:
1. Assessing the scope and goals of the organization
Step 2. Assessing the Strategy:
2. Strategy
3. Environment
Step 3. Analyzing the Structure:
4. Traditional configurations of the firm
5. New organizational forms?
Step 4. Assessing Process and People:
6. Work, task design and agents
7. Leadership and organizational climate
Step 5. Analyzing Coordination, Control, and Incentives:
8. Coordination and control
9. Incentives
10. Designing the structure and coordination
Step 6. Designing the Architecture:
11. Designing the architecture and the sequence of change
Step 7. Implementing the Architecture:
12. Implementing the change: who should do what when?

Now in its fourth edition, this is the definitive step-by-step 'how to' guide to designing an organization. Building on information processing theory, the book proposes a holistic, multi-contingency model of the organization. This textbook communicates the fundamentals of traditional and new organizational forms, including up-to-date analysis of self-organizing, boss-less, digital, and sustainable organizations. Providing a framework for the practical implementation of organizational design changes, the authors break the process down into seven basic steps: (1) Assessing Goals, (2) Assessing Strategy, (3) Analyzing Structure, (4) Assessing Process and People, (5) Analyzing Coordination, Control and Incentives, (6) Designing the Architecture, and (7) Implementing the Architecture. Each step connects with one of the nine interdependent components of the multi-contingency model, and the authors also provide a logical query process for approaching each of these components. This is an ideal guide for managers or executives interested in assessing their organization and taking steps to redesign it for success, as well as for MBA and executive MBA students looking for an introduction to organizational design.

Develops an integrated holistic model of the organization using a multi-contingency model derived from decades of theoretical and empirical research
Promotes a simple, step by step approach, from diagnosis to design and implementation, developing an integrated model of design rather than a piecemeal approach
Supplemented by cases and spreadsheet tools