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These organizational design books walk you through the full process, from diagnosing the problem to choosing a model and leading the change. You'll find step-by-step guides, a government toolkit, and a complete MBA course.
A compact introduction to how organizations are designed, from hierarchy and bureaucracy to matrix, agile, and less hierarchical forms. Four management scholars explain the fundamentals, how design connects with change, and the principles behind each model, with diagrams of the main structures.
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Stewart Clegg, Medhanie Gaim and Luca Giustiniano
A practical guide to the full redesign process, from diagnosis and strategic mandate to implementation and change management. It sets out four design principles, six common mistakes to avoid, and five models for organizing around competitive advantage.
A complete manual for designing, implementing and maintaining organisational structures in government departments. It covers design principles, the structuring process step by step, and a toolkit of templates and checklists for every phase.
A full MBA course on organisational design, organized in study units with objectives, summaries and self-assessment questions. It covers contingency theories, coordination and control, incentives, leadership and climate, and how to build an organizational chart.
Campbell and Goold turn years of research into nine practical tests for judging any organization design, from market advantage and people fit to flexibility and redundant hierarchy. A short, decision-focused read that shows where frameworks like the 7S and the Star Model fall short.
Explains why organization design has become core leadership work and how executives and HR can share it. The authors cover diagnosis, stakeholder involvement, and the frameworks that connect structure to strategy.
A beginner-friendly tutorial on what organizational design is, the main structure types, and the steps to design or redesign a company. Short chapters and plain language make it a quick primer for new managers and entrepreneurs.
Explores how a firm's structure can help or block organizational learning, building on the knowledge-based view of the firm. It closes with design recommendations for managers who want to build a learning organization.
Reviews how an organization should be designed to innovate and stay sustainable at the same time. The paper maps the design elements involved and proposes directions for research on the sustainable organization.
Functional, divisional, matrix, or flat? These books on organizational structure explain each type, including Mintzberg's five configurations, and what it costs in coordination.
An open textbook on how organizations divide and coordinate work. It explains centralization, formalization and levels of hierarchy, then compares functional, divisional and matrix structures with real company examples.
A university study unit that walks through every major structure type: line, line and staff, functional, divisional, matrix, project, network, boundaryless and inverted pyramid. Each one comes with its advantages, drawbacks and review questions.
Summarizes Henry Mintzberg's framework for classifying organizations by their key part, main coordinating mechanism and degree of decentralization. It explains his five configurations, from simple structure and machine bureaucracy to adhocracy.
A qualitative study of how digital transformation reshapes the IT function in established organizations. It tracks changes in IT structure, the role of the CIO, and the new leadership patterns that emerge.
Argues that organization design should be a forward-looking science and examines the fit between structure and coordination mechanisms such as information, decisions, trust and incentives. It introduces the multi-contingency approach behind Burton and Obel's design model.
Every organizational design choice rests on a theory about how people work together. Start with Taylor's scientific management and Mary Parker Follett, then move on to systems and contingency thinking.
The 1911 classic that launched scientific management. Taylor argues for studying each task, training workers systematically and sharing responsibility between managers and workers, using his famous pig-iron and shoveling experiments as proof.
A full university course on organisation theory, from the classical, administrative and scientific management approaches to the human resources and socio-technical systems schools. Study units include objectives, summaries and self-assessment exercises.
A concise study unit on organisation theory. It covers the principles of organisation, the classical school of bureaucracy, administrative theory and scientific management, the neo-classical school, and modern systems and contingency theories.
A postgraduate course in 21 units that links organisation theory with behaviour at work. It moves from the main theoretical schools to individual behaviour, group behaviour and organisation systems.
Mary Parker Follett's 1918 case that groups, not isolated individuals, are the real unit of social and political organization. Her ideas on integration and shared power later shaped management thinking on coordination and participation.
That's the full collection of organizational design books, from hands-on guides to the classics of organization theory. Pick one and start reading today.
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