Organization Design
Organization Design capability – knowing how to flexibly use design features to achieve desired outcomes – constitutes a significant competitive advantage in today’s global business environment, according to Lawler and Mohrman (2003). Organizations are essentially collections of parts with endless points of discontinuity. Good designs build organizational capabilities, for instance to manage innovation, which equip organizations to compete successfully. Capabilities are the product of a combination of knowledge, routines and behaviour that are enabled by well-designed work processes, structures and lateral processes, management practices and systems, and rewards and people practices.
As organizations struggle to adapt ...
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