Designing Your Organization: Using the Star Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges [With CDROM]

By Amy Kates and Jay R. Galbraith

Book Overview

Designing Your Organization is a hands-on guide thatprovides managers with a set of practical tools to use when makingorganization design decisions. Based on Jay Galbraith'swidely used Star Model, the book covers the fundamentals oforganization design and offers frameworks and tools to help leadersexecute their strategy. The authors address the five specificdesign challenges that confront most of today'sorganizations:

- Designingaround the customer

- Organizingacross borders

- Making a matrixwork

- Solving thecentralization--and decentralization dilemma

- Organizing forinnovation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787994944
• ISBN13: 9780787994945
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Resource

Our work team is involved in reviewing the organizational structure of our workforce, this book is a wonderful resource to help guide us in this effort.

Comprehensive and lots of ideas/guidance

This book from Amy Kates/Jay Galbraith provides a useful addition to their earlier work Designing Dynamic Organisations.I found the chapter on solving the centralisation-decentralisation dilemma very helpful, and the coverage of organisation for innovation provides a wide range of pointers for the the reader who is dealing with this topic.The first chapter provides a review of the key concepts and principles of organisation design giving a good lead into the rest of the book.If you want a deeper treatment, in terms of a step by step guide, to organisation design principles see their 2002 book mentioned above. Stan Felstead. Interchange Resources UK.