Designing Your Organization Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges
by Kates, Amy; Galbraith, Jay R.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-11-02
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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Summary
Designing Your Organization is a hands-on guide that provides managers with a set of practical tools to use when making organization design decisions. Based on Jay Galbraith's widely used Star Model, the book covers the fundamentals of organization design and offers frameworks and tools to help leaders execute their strategy. The authors address the five specific design challenges that confront most of today's organizations: + Designing around the customer + Organizing across borders + Making a matrix work + Solving the centralization-and decentralization dilemma + Organizing for innovation
Author Biography
Amy Kates is principal partner with Downey Kates Associates, an organization design and development consulting firm located in New York City.
Jay R. Galbraith is professor emeritus at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Table of Contents
| Decision Tools Included on the CD-ROM | |
| Introduction | |
| The Authors | |
| Fundamentals of Organization Design | |
| Designing Around the Customer | |
| Organizing Across Borders | |
| Making a MatrixWork | |
| Solving the Centralization-Decentralization Dilemma | |
| Organizing for Innovation | |
| Conclusion | |
| Appendix: Decision Tools | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| How to Use the CD-ROM | |
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