Though a company's top management must consider many issues when designing an organization's structure, they all relate to only a few design elements. Designers start with the most basic issue of a ...

Creating an organizational structure for your company enables your communication path, workforce planning, leadership grouping and ultimately, the ability operate a viable business. Even small ...

Adjusting an organizational chart and making an organizational change is not necessarily going to improve performance. In order to drive performance improvement, organizational design needs to be ...

Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Mar., 1980), pp. 322-341 (20 pages) The elements of organizational structuring-which show a curious tendency to appear in five's-suggest a typology of five basic ...

Leaders can sense when their organization is not working well or if the environment they operate in has changed, rendering the operating strategy and structure obsolete. The current Covid-19 pandemic ...

AI is inverting the traditional pyramid shape of organizations. Rethinking the structure for this shape shift requires CIOs, ...

Anyone who’s celebrated a significant work anniversary knows just how a company can change over the years—who has a seat at the table, what customers expect, the most coveted skills. But there’s just ...

Increase your competitive edge by aligning your business strategy with your organizational structure. And, gain the frameworks to build a highly energized workforce that operates in a fashion to ...

Concepts of uncertainty and information processing are used to integrate the diverse organization design/structure literatures. This approach more fully explicates the concept of congruence which lies ...

Design thinking can drive curiosity, collaboration across disciplines, and radical risk-taking—all to develop solutions that solve real-world problems. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, ...

The saying "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole" accurately applies to the Skanska companies. The U.S. affiliate of Sweden-based Skanska AB has parlayed its flat organizational structure ...