Conclusions

From the perspective of achieving organizational balance, all the elements of an organization’s performance need to operate together in the same way as an ecosystem. Organizations need to change because society has changed and hierarchical technostructural approaches to organization design are no longer fully fit for purpose in today’s fast-moving, knowledge-intensive world. Organizations operating in the modern global economy need to adapt their traditional thinking of how they operate to a philosophy that embraces the natural cycles, systems, controls, and available talent within the organization in order to achieve balance and create an environment for sustainable performance. This is where the Organization Balance model seeks ...

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