Build effective organisations through organisation design, with this comprehensive overview of all the critical areas including job design, sizing the organisation and change management.
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.
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
Patricia Cichocki
Patricia Cichocki leads Design to Change. She has over 25 years' experience, working in and advising international organisations and clients on organisation design and change. She is adept at managing the practicalities of embedding organisation designs. She holds degrees from HEC Paris, Oxford University and University College London and is a member of the Organisation Design Forum and was a founding Director of the Change Leaders.
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