Overview
- Develops the multi contingency theory for organizational design – the fit of environment, strategy, technology, size, organizational climate and leadership style with the organizational configuration, decentralization, information system and the managerial incentives
- Is unique together with the OrgCon diagnosis and design program, as complementary hands on tools for learning about and applying a deeper and practical theory for diagnosis and design
Part of the book series: Information and Organization Design Series (INOD, volume 4)
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The second edition of this modern classic in organization design extends the scope of the first edition by adding a whole new section on organizational climate, and one on analyzing companies organizations using publicly available data. The Organization Consultant has been rewritten for Windows and significantly enhanced. Teaching organizational design with this book and software package was exceptionally easy, enjoyable and fruitful, so that my teaching evaluations for this class reached an all-time high!" (Class: Designing Project and Company Organizations
Instructor: Raymond E. Levitt, Professor of Construction Engineering and Management, School of Engineering, Stanford University)
"I have been teaching organization theory in the business school for some years; the students have great difficulty with the concepts and their meaning for them as future managers. Based upon the Burton and Obel book and ORGCON software, I have developed a pedagogy which excites the students about organizational design and gives them a structure for understanding the basic concepts in organization theory. I begin the course with a Danish company prospectus which provides a lot of information about the company. In small teams, the students develop the data inputs for the ORGCON software. They are asked to operationalize organization theory concepts in a managerial design context. Thereafter, the integration of theory and application is quite normal and they are able to focus on the complex problems of design choice and organizational change for implementation." (Torkild Jorgensen, The Aarhus School of Business)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design
Book Subtitle: Developing Theory for Application
Authors: Richard M. Burton, Børge Obel
Series Title: Information and Organization Design Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0021-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-0021-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2668
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: 504
Topics: Management, Organization, IT in Business