Guide to organisation design : creating high-performing and adaptable enterprises / Naomi Stanford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanford, Naomi, author.

Series:

Economist Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Business planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : PublicAffairs, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Business failure is not limited to start ups. Industry Watch (published by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm) 'predicts that 17,043 businesses will fail (in the UK) in 2006, a further 4 per cent increase from 2005'. In America between 1990 and 2000, there were over 6.3 million business start-ups and over 5.7 million business shut-downs.Risk of failure can be greatly reduced through effective organisational design that encourages high performance and adaptability to changing circumstances. Organisation design is a straightforward business process but curiously managers rarely talk about it a

Contents:

Case studies; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Introducing organisation design; 2 Models, approaches and designs; 3 Organisational structures; 4 Planning and sequencing the organisation design; 5 Measurement; 6 Stakeholder engagement; 7 Leadership and organisation design; 8 Culture and group processes; 9 Continuous design; Notes and sources; Organisation design models; Glossary; Index

Notes:

At head of title: The Economist.

First published in 2015 by Profile Books Ltd. in Great Britain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61039-576-X