Ebook: Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription

Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is accomplished by establishing sets of rules from "real world" organization contexts. Moreover, the development of these rules within "real world" contexts means that the rules must be true, general, operational, technically sound, and easy to use. With an understanding of rules and the processes of their use, organization structures can be identified, which in turn form the basis of a theoretical framework. This book discusses, examines, and demonstrates the interrelationship of the design rules, their theoretical use within these organization structures, along with their practical implications. Throughout the book, an extended example of the Masters Brewing Corporation (MBC) is used to illustrate the conceptual material and to make the implications of the organizational analysis explicitly concrete.

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Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is accomplished by establishing sets of rules from "real world" organization contexts. Moreover, the development of these rules within "real world" contexts means that the rules must be true, general, operational, technically sound, and easy to use. With an understanding of rules and the processes of their use, organization structures can be identified, which in turn form the basis of a theoretical framework. This book discusses, examines, and demonstrates the interrelationship of the design rules, their theoretical use within these organization structures, along with their practical implications. Throughout the book, an extended example of the Masters Brewing Corporation (MBC) is used to illustrate the conceptual material and to make the implications of the organizational analysis explicitly concrete.

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Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is accomplished by establishing sets of rules from "real world" organization contexts. Moreover, the development of these rules within "real world" contexts means that the rules must be true, general, operational, technically sound, and easy to use. With an understanding of rules and the processes of their use, organization structures can be identified, which in turn form the basis of a theoretical framework. This book discusses, examines, and demonstrates the interrelationship of the design rules, their theoretical use within these organization structures, along with their practical implications. Throughout the book, an extended example of the Masters Brewing Corporation (MBC) is used to illustrate the conceptual material and to make the implications of the organizational analysis explicitly concrete.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Structure, Performance, Cost, and Outcome....Pages 1-31
Organization Structures....Pages 33-64
Properties of the Organization Structure....Pages 65-95
Structures: Connections, Consistency and Cost....Pages 97-131
Properties of Transformations, Environments and Structure Performance....Pages 133-161
Analytic Mappings: From Substructure Performance and Environments to Outcomes....Pages 163-193
Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part One....Pages 195-220
Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part Two....Pages 221-256
The Efficiency of the Design Process....Pages 257-288
Design Mappings: Design Rule Derivation and Use....Pages 289-309
Design Rules for Organization Structure Performance Properties....Pages 311-337
Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part A....Pages 339-365
Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part B....Pages 367-398
A Useful Process of Design....Pages 399-461
Back Matter....Pages 463-483

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Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is accomplished by establishing sets of rules from "real world" organization contexts. Moreover, the development of these rules within "real world" contexts means that the rules must be true, general, operational, technically sound, and easy to use. With an understanding of rules and the processes of their use, organization structures can be identified, which in turn form the basis of a theoretical framework. This book discusses, examines, and demonstrates the interrelationship of the design rules, their theoretical use within these organization structures, along with their practical implications. Throughout the book, an extended example of the Masters Brewing Corporation (MBC) is used to illustrate the conceptual material and to make the implications of the organizational analysis explicitly concrete.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Structure, Performance, Cost, and Outcome....Pages 1-31
Organization Structures....Pages 33-64
Properties of the Organization Structure....Pages 65-95
Structures: Connections, Consistency and Cost....Pages 97-131
Properties of Transformations, Environments and Structure Performance....Pages 133-161
Analytic Mappings: From Substructure Performance and Environments to Outcomes....Pages 163-193
Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part One....Pages 195-220
Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part Two....Pages 221-256
The Efficiency of the Design Process....Pages 257-288
Design Mappings: Design Rule Derivation and Use....Pages 289-309
Design Rules for Organization Structure Performance Properties....Pages 311-337
Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part A....Pages 339-365
Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part B....Pages 367-398
A Useful Process of Design....Pages 399-461
Back Matter....Pages 463-483
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