Principles of Management: Text and Cases

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Organizational Systems, Structure, and Design

After going through this chapter, you will be able to understand:

• the systems view of organizations
• the organizational structure and its relationship with the systems
• the various principles of organizational systems
• the viable systems approach in an organization
• socio-technical systems thinking
• the business process approach to an organization
• the relationship of organizational culture to organizational design

Systems Drive Results

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in Internet infrastructure. Cisco's organizational transformation was achieved primarily by incubating future leaders within the organization and empowering them to drive the organization through change. To achieve ...