Organizational Structure and Design: Text and Cases (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032695853)

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 the 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, including the 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 organization
• Enables readers to challenge organizational design in times of uncertainty

Concise, lucid, and engaging, this book will be useful to students, academics, management researchers, and industry professionals in the fields of general management, organizational behaviour, and human resource management and development.