Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Designing Organization Design: A Human-Centred Approach

Autor Rodrigo Magalhães
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2020
As a topic, organization design is poorly understood. While it is featured in most management books as a chapter dedicated to organizational structures, it is unclear whether organization design is a one-off event or an ongoing process. Thus, it has traditionally been understood to be the same as an organizational configuration, with neat lines of communication and distribution of responsibilities following pre-set typologies. Yet what can be said to constitute organizational structure in this first half of the 21st century? The extraordinary growth of digital communications, the decreasing relevance of hierarchical bureaucracies, and the general demise of command-and-control have all but decimated the traditional notion of organizational structure.Organization design needs a theoretical revamping. Using a mix of design and social science theories and concepts, Rodrigo Magalhães outlines a new human-centric interpretation of design, design principles, and design culture. He puts forward a paradigm where the organization, for purposes of its design, is considered to be a social actor in a permanent state of transformation, with significant repercussions for social and economic life. He also proposes a model of 'leaderful organization design', distinguished as practice-based, guided by values of democratic participation, and driven by design logics which places meaning-making and meaning-taking at the center of organizational life and can be adopted and adapted to suit different environments.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 59162 lei

Preț vechi: 75317 lei
-21% Nou

Puncte Express: 887

Preț estimativ în valută:
11324 11802$ 9426£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 03-09 decembrie

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198867333
ISBN-10: 0198867336
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 163 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A robust theoretical book ... a valuable read for upper-division undergraduates majoring in leadership, business management, human resources, and industrial/organizational psychology as well as management, human resources development, and business graduate students and faculty.
This is a terrific book on organization design. It starts with the premise that organizations are human constructions, purpose driven, and responsive to their stakeholders. In other words this is a practical, common-sense approach that we badly need. Scholars and practitioners will be amply repaid by reading, studying, implementing the ideas in this book.
This book argues that organization studies need a paradigm shift towards design. Design and organization were always related. However, the current 'design thinking' hype is not the answer, since it does not address the essential issues. In a broader perspective this book presents a carefully reasoned and passionately formulated plea for the urgently needed change from a market society to a society with markets, and it provides useful 'organization design logics' on how to do this.
This book addresses the urgent need to shift from thinking about organizations purely in terms of structures and systems, offering an alternative approach based on more humane and situated forms. The principles of design thinking and their implications are discussed in depth, and a wide range of literature is drawn on to address the history, current developments, and future possibilities for organization design. Each logic is discussed in detail, taking the reader carefully through its main elements, and key ideas are illustrated and integrated through helpful figures.
In this era of turbulent change, resulting from emergent technological possibilities, climate change, populism and the like, organizations need to reinvent themselves as well as their role in society. They need to reinvent the way they design themselves day after day on an ongoing basis. Although, as Magalhães points out, we are still waiting for a unified theory of organizational design, we now have a foundational book to help build such theory. Magalhães guides us in a fascinating journey through the landscapes of design as a living and polyedric process. A great organizational read.

Notă biografică

Rodrigo Magalhães is a Professor of Management, currently affiliated to INESC-ID, Institute for Computer Systems and Engineering-Research and Development and to the Centre for Organization Design and Engineering, INOV, both in Lisbon, Portugal. He was previously co-Editor-in-Chief of Organization Design and Enterprise Engineering and has an extensive publishing record in the areas of design management, information systems management, organizational change, knowledge management, organization learning, business process management, and e-learning.