Designing Effective Organizations: How to Create Structured Networks Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition

From the rear cover

Have you ever struggled to make decisions in organizations where responsibilities are not sufficiently clear? Have you labored in hierarchical structures where senior managers slow down decisions, but add no value? Have you wondered why the organization design so often makes strategies hard to implement? Designing Effective Organizations offers practical help to managers who face these difficulties.

This book provides a rigorous approach to the complex issue of organizational design. Drawing on a wide range of company examples and wealth of personal experience, the authors have produced an innovative new framework for assessing design options.

Using nine tests, and new and more precise terms to convey organizational roles, Goold and Campbell provide managers with the tools needed to create well designed organizations. They emphasize the value of decentralized network-like organizations, but argue for sufficient structure to make them work well.

Although organizational design decisions will never be easy, managers who use the processes outlined in this book are much more likely to arrive at sound choices and increase the overall competitive success of their companies.

If you have always put organizational design in the 'too difficult' box, or struggled to find a better way to restructure your organization, this is the book for you.

From the jacket flap

Have you ever struggled to make decisions in organizations where responsibilities are not sufficiently clear? Have you labored in hierarchical structures where senior managers slow down decisions, but add no value? Have you wondered why the organization design so often makes strategies hard to implement? Designing Effective Organizations offers practical help to managers who face these difficulties.

This book provides a rigorous approach to the complex issue of organizational design. Drawing on a wide range of company examples and wealth of personal experience, the authors have produced an innovative new framework for assessing design options.

Using nine tests, and new and more precise terms to convey organizational roles, Goold and Campbell provide managers with the tools needed to create well designed organizations. They emphasize the value of decentralized network-like organizations, but argue for sufficient structure to make them work well.

Although organizational design decisions will never be easy, managers who use the processes outlined in this book are much more likely to arrive at sound choices and increase the overall competitive success of their companies.

If you have always put organizational design in the 'too difficult' box, or struggled to find a better way to restructure your organization, this is the book for you.