Organizational Structure and Design

This textbook explores major issues and concepts in organizational structure and design. It details strategic and business issues that merit consideration while framing or designing organizational structure. Working with a range of industry examples and case studies, this volume, Relates organizational structure and design issues with organizational culture and change management, power and politics, and policies and strategies. Covers several key topics which include structure-strategy debate, viable system model, issues pertaining to organizational culture, change management, power, and conflict. Discusses various models of organizational structure like matrix, global business unit, strategic business unit, hybrid, functional and divisional, modular, networked, agile, helix, etc., in relation to organizational practices and their strategic influence over the organizations. Enables readers to challenge organizational design in days of uncertainty. Concise, lucid, and engaging, this book will be useful to the students, academicians, management researchers and industry professionals from the field of general management, organizational behaviour, and human resource management and development.