Designing Organizations: An Executive Briefing on Strategy, Structure, and Process - Hardcover

Galbraith, Jay R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787900915 ISBN 13: 9780787900915

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1995

Synopsis

Build processes that drive success

A concise guide to creating a superior, more competitive organization. Based on ten years of research, Designing Organizations shows how organization design supports policies, affects behaviors and impact performance. It also tells what leaders can and must do to affect the process. Examples from such successful companies as Hewlett-Packard, Apple, MCI, McDonald's and Citibank demonstrate outstanding design in action. The author analyzes the four key forces that shape today's organizations -- buyer power, variety, change and speed -- and outlines concrete methods for designing a state-of-the-art organization that facilitates effective, rapid response to customer demands.

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From the Back Cover:

Drawing on over ten years of research, the author cites examples from such successful companies as Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, MCI, Marriott, Frito-Lay, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Citibank to show how organization design supports policies, behaviors, and performanceand tells what leaders can and must do to effect the process. Galbraith analyzes the four key forces shaping today's organizationsbuyer power, variety, change, and speedand shows how to design a state-of-the-art organization that can create effective, rapid responses to customer demands.

About the Author:

JAY R. GALBRAITH is professor of Management and Organization and senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Organizing for the Future (with E. Lawler, Jossey-Bass, 1993), named one of the top ten business books of 1993 by Industry Week.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0787900915
• ISBN 13: 9780787900915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192