Organizing for the Future

The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations

Jay R. Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler III

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1993, 312 pages

ISBN: 1-55542-528-3

Keywords: Organizational Development

Last modified: July 27, 2021, 7:36 p.m.

In an era oc accelerating change in the workplace, many organizational designs and management practices — created to work in a stable, predictable world — have rapidly become outmoded. And while in the past companies pursued new competitive advantages through initiatives in productivity. quality, and customer service, there is a growing belief that, in the future, organization design will be the basis for gaining competitive advantage.

This book, based on more than ten years of research done at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, explore key issues of organizational design and identifies practical new approaches for managing complex organizations to stay competitive in a changing global marketplace.

The authors describe how to create an organization with high levels of employee involvement and new roles for managers. They detail the use of new organizational forms, including knowledge worker and managerial teams, structuring human resource systems around skill levels and creating such new types of organizations as distributed staffs and virtual networks. And they explain how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge, and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.

  • Introduction: Challenges to the Established Order
    Jay R. Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler III
  • Part One: New Organizational Forms
    1. The Value-Adding Corporation: Matching Structure with Strategy
      Jay R. Galbraith
    2. The Business Unit of the Future
      Jay R. Galbraith
    3. New Roles for the Staff Function: Strategic Support and Services
      Edward E. Lawler III, Jay R. Galbraith
  • Part Two: Organizing for Internal Effectiveness
    1. Organizational Change and Learning
      Susan Albers Mohrman, Allan M. Mohrman, Jr.
    2. Integrating Roles and Structure in the Lateral Organization
      Susan Albers Mohrman
    3. Employee Involvement: Lessons and Predictions
      Gerald E. Ledford, Jr.
    4. Creating the High-Involvement Organization
      Edward E. Lawler III
    5. New Approaches to Teams and Teamwork
      Susan G. Cohen
  • Part Three: Developing and Managing Human Resources
    1. Human Resource Management: Building a Strategic Partnership
      Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., Edward E. Lawler III
    2. Developing Leadership
      Morgan W. McCall, Jr.
  • Conclusion: Effective Organizations: Using the New Logic of Organizing
    Jay R. Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler III

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Organizing for the Future

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Disappointing *** (3 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 3:16 a.m.

Everybody referes to this book, but I can't seem to get any interest up. You may read it bacause it is a classical text (heaven knows why?).

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