Organizational Design (3^rd Ed.) A Step-by-Step Approach

Written specifically for executives and MBA students, the third edition of this successful textbook provides a step-by-step guide to designing an organization, from diagnosis, to design and implementation. It provides comprehensive coverage of the key aspects of organizational design, including goals, strategy, process, people, coordination, control, and incentives. Following a new diamond model, fully tested in practice, the book guides readers through an integrated methodology for organizational assessment and planning. It includes a new chapter on project managing organizational change on a practical level, new case studies, extended discussions of new organizational forms, architecture design and knowledge systems, and new practical steps for implementation and change. Visit www.cambridge.org/burton3 for free access to a selection of organizational diagnosis, design and implementation models in Excel, as well as additional case studies, figures and tables from the book.

List of figures; List of tables; Preface to first edition; Preface to second edition; Preface to third edition; An outline of the step-by-step approach; Step 1. Getting Started: 1. Assessing scope and goals of the organization; Step 2. Assessing the Strategy: 2. Strategy; 3. Environment; Step 3. Analyzing the Structure: 4. The configuration of the firm; 5. New organizational forms; Step 4. Assessing Processes and People: 6. Task design; 7. People; 8. Leadership and organizational climate; Step 5. Analyzing Coordination, Control and Incentives: 9. Coordination, control, and information and knowledge systems; 10. Incentives; Step 6. Designing the Architecture: 11. Designing the architecture and the sequence of change; Step 7. Implementing the Architecture: 12. Implementing the change: who should do what when?; References; Index.

Richard M. Burton is Professor Emeritus of Organization and Strategy at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Børge Obel is Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Organizational Architecture (ICOA) and Professor in Management at Aarhus University.
Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.