Designing Organizations For High Performance

Author : David P. Hanna
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015290284

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Designing Organizations for High Performance by David P. Hanna Pdf

A practical guide to developing higher levels of performance in large organizations through changes in strategy, organization design, and culture. This guide presents detailed descriptions of ways in which individuals intervened in their organizations, how they arrived at their plans, and how it resulted in improved effectiveness and better business results for the organization.

Author : Susan Albers Mohrman,Thomas G. Cummings
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:35128001000627

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Self-designing Organizations by Susan Albers Mohrman,Thomas G. Cummings Pdf

Author : Amy Kates,Jay R. Galbraith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118047514

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Designing Your Organization by Amy Kates,Jay R. Galbraith Pdf

Designing Your Organization is a hands-on guide that provides managers with a set of practical tools to use when making organization design decisions. Based on Jay Galbraith’s widely used Star Model, the book covers the fundamentals of organization design and offers frameworks and tools to help leaders execute their strategy. The authors address the five specific design challenges that confront most of today’s organizations: · Designing around the customer · Organizing across borders · Making a matrix work · Solving the centralization—and decentralization dilemma · Organizing for innovation

Author : Linda Holbeche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136357695

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The High Performance Organization by Linda Holbeche Pdf

Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively. The High Performance Organization provides invaluable information and practical tools for people engaged in leading organizational change efforts as an executive, line manager, HR practitioner or change agent. This practical text is grounded in organizational reality as well as having a sound theoretical setting. Illustrative case studies have been drawn from consultancy practice and a wide range of current research.

Author : Jay R. Galbraith
Publisher : Pfeiffer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015060131078

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Designing Organizations by Jay R. Galbraith Pdf

This second edition is a leader's concise guide to the process of creating and managing an organization that will achieve competitive advantages and be poised to respond effectively and rapidly to customer demands.

Author : Michael Beer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470486887

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High Commitment High Performance by Michael Beer Pdf

How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the transformation process to help them get there. Starting with leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to weave together a complete system that includes top-to-bottom communication, organization design, HR policies, and leadership transformation process, and outlines what practitioners must do in HR, structure, systems, goals, culture, and strategy to create high-performance organizations.

Author : Naomi Stanford,The Economist
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610395762

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Guide to Organisation Design by Naomi Stanford,The Economist Pdf

Business failure is not limited to start ups. Industry Watch (published by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm) 'predicts that 17,043 businesses will fail (in the UK) in 2006, a further 4 per cent increase from 2005'. In America 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 organizational design that encourages high performance and adaptability to changing circumstances. Organization design is a straightforward business process but curiously managers rarely talk about it and even more rarely take steps to consciously design or redesign their business for success. This new Economist guide explores the five principles of effective organization design, which are that it must be: driven by the business strategy and the operating context (not by a new IT system, a new leader wanting to make an impact, or some other non-business reason). involve holistic thinking about the organization be for the future rather than for now not to be undertaken lightly - it is resource intensive even when going well be seen as a fundamental process not a repair job. (Racing cars are designed and built. They are then kept in good repair.)

Author : Peter Merholz,Kristin Skinner
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491938355

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Org Design for Design Orgs by Peter Merholz,Kristin Skinner Pdf

Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and rapidly evolving digital experiences, and designers are starting to be included in strategic conversations about the products and services that enterprises ultimately deliver. This has led to companies building in-house digital/experience design teams at unprecedented rates, but many of them don’t understand how to get the most out of their investment. This practical guide provides guidelines for creating and leading design teams within your organization, and explores ways to use design as part of broader strategic planning. You’ll discover: Why design’s role has evolved in the digital age How to infuse design into every product and service experience The 12 qualities of effective design organizations How to structure your design team through a Centralized Partnership Design team roles and evolution The process of recruiting and hiring designers How to manage your design team and promote professional growth

Author : Daniel Robey,Carol A. Sales
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000033952390

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Designing Organizations by Daniel Robey,Carol A. Sales Pdf

Author : Donald L. Anderson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781544338002

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Organization Design by Donald L. Anderson Pdf

To thrive in today’s rapidly changing, global, dynamic business environment characterized by constant change and disruption, organizations must be able to adapt and innovate to maintain their competitive edge. Organization Design: Creating Strategic & Agile Organizations prepares students to make smart strategic decisions when designing and redesigning organizations. Structured around Galbraith’s Star ModelTM, the text explores five facets of organization design: strategy, structure, processes, people, and rewards. Author Donald L. Anderson distills contemporary and classic research into practical applications and best practices. Cases, exercises, and a simulation activity provide multiple opportunities for students to practice making design decisions. Includes an innovative organization design simulation activity that puts students in the role of a design practitioner!

Author : Susan Albers Mohrman,Susan G. Cohen,Allan M. Mohrman
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106011606735

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Designing Team-Based Organizations by Susan Albers Mohrman,Susan G. Cohen,Allan M. Mohrman Pdf

This book presents a grounded framework to guide the design of the team-based organization. It provides theory and concepts to underpin the design, describes and gives case examples illustrating the five steps of the design process, and outlines key issues such as changing roles, empowerment, and the transition process.

Author : Clive Wilson
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749472214

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Designing the Purposeful Organization by Clive Wilson Pdf

Globalization, competition and recession have created an overwhelming pressure on organizations to deliver growth. This has often resulted in tough performance targets being pushed down the line. Hard-hitting management may deliver short-term results but in the longer term key people burn out or leave, and business performance falls back. Designing the Purposeful Organization explains how to implement a more enlightened and authentic leadership style that aligns people's strengths to the delivery of a compelling future. Designing the Purposeful Organization draws on a unique framework that helps leaders manage the eight elements essential for high performance: purpose, vision, engagement, structure, character, results, success and talent. It moves beyond the boundaries of transactional performance (pay me X and I'll deliver Y) to a purpose-centred performance that releases talent, creativity and engagement. It features case studies from Google, Whole Foods Market, the NHS and the London 2012 Olympics and is ideal for practitioners in organization development, senior HR managers and business leaders. This book demonstrates how business performance can be inspired beyond boundaries by aligning people to a compelling purpose.

Author : Ray Aldag,Loren Kuzuhara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136269622

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Creating High Performance Teams by Ray Aldag,Loren Kuzuhara Pdf

Creating High Performance Teams is an accessible and thorough new introduction to this key area of business education. Written by teams experts Ray Aldag and Loren Kuzuhara, this book provides students with both a firm grounding in the key concepts of the field and the practical tools to become successful team managers and members. Built on a solid foundation of the most up to date research and theory, chapters are packed with case studies, real-world examples, tasks and discussion questions, while a companion website supports the book with a wealth of useful resources for students, team members, and instructors. Centered around an original model for high performance teams, topics covered include: Building and developing effective teams Managing diversity Effective communication Team processes – meetings, performance management Dealing with change and team problems Current issues – virtual teams, globalization With its combined emphasis on principles and application, interwoven with the tools, topics, and teams most relevant today, Creating High Performance Teams is perfectly placed to equip upper-level undergraduate and MBA students with the knowledge and skills necessary to take on teams in any situation.

Author : Kevin Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798684474217

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Organization Design Made Easy by Kevin Anderson Pdf

The most popular business books on the market today advise leaders to simply articulate a vision, be inspirational from time-to-time, and leave the rest for employees to figure out. As an organizational design consultant, I've landed at the doorstep of hundreds of teams who have followed this path, only to find them without clear direction, stuck in silos and lacking the structure and processes needed to perform.This book offers practical advice on how to design your organization. Whether you're a leader at the top of a large organization, or a supervisor of a small team, here are the practical instructions to address structure, process and people challenges in developing an efficient and functioning organization. And, these same methods can be leveraged by consultants and employees at any level.Each chapter offers three, easy steps to address organizational challenges and opportunities. This means that you get just enough context, process and tips to immediately jump in feet first. Those who do not take the time upfront to craft their organizations leave their success up to chance.

Author : Naomi Stanford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136206368

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Organization Design by Naomi Stanford Pdf

As the purse strings tighten company costs need to be cut without this affecting performance or sales. A common solution to this problem is to restructure the organization of the company i.e. adjust the lines and boxes on the organization chart with the aim of setting it up for high performance. This inevitably fails because an organization is a system; change one aspect and other facets will also change. Organization Design: Engaging with change looks at how to (re) design the organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value; providing the knowledge and methodology to design an agile organization capable of handling the kind of continuous organizational change that all businesses face. The book clarifies why and how organizations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign and emphasizes that people as well as business processes must be part of design considerations. Responding to developments across the world since the first edition, this book covers, among other topics: Technology changes that have impacted upon organizations Increased demands for ‘sustainability’ and corporate social responsibility The pressure on organizations to be smarter, more efficient and more effective Whilst the material on this subject targets a wide management audience, this book is specifically written for consultants, OD/HR practitioners and line managers working together to achieve the goal of organizational redesign for changing circumstances. Aided by a range of pedagogical features, this book is a must-read for students or practitioners involved in the field of organizational design, development and change.