Organization Design: The Evolving State-Of-The-Art Book

Introduction.- The contingency theory of organizational design.- The configurational approach to organizational design.- Is strategic human resource management strategic?- Making delegation credible and preserving employee motivation.- Examining the relationship between trust and control in organizational design.- Structural limitations in organization design.- Beyond national culture as an environmental variable.- Organizational design as a constraint on strategy and performance.- How misfits between leadership style and strategy affect performance.- Performance loss from multiple misfits.- Organization design, organizational learning, and the market value of the firm.- Two faces of search: alternative generation and alternative evaluation.- Management and Genghis Khan: lessons for multinational business enterprises.- The design of organizational boundaries for knowledge acquisition.- Models of organizational change and the adoption of Web technologies.- Governance channels and organization design at General Electric, 1950-2001.- Index.