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Organizational Structure and Design |
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Mintzberg investigates the art and science of organizational structure and design by examining the various goals that organizations pursue, and the structures they have assumed to do this. For him, the question of an ideal organizational structure is not the point. What does matter is that leaders make decisions that take into account current operating realities, as well as strategic intentions.
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Ideal structure then, is a matter of bringing current potential together with future intent, and should be in a constant state of flux, as options emerge and reality shifts. The lesson here is that if your company works towards stability by implementing bureaucratic systems, while the changing marketplace demands innovation, your organizational structure will be a liability. If your company seeks to master change, and it adopts organic systems of integration and coordination, then your organizational structure will naturally respond to emerging possibilities.
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Mintzberg, Henry. The Structuring of Organizations. Prentice-Hall Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.1979.
This is the classic text on organizational behaviour and design, and it provides us with a very handy introduction to organizational development. Written by Canada's foremost management thinker -- Henry Mintzberg -- The Structuring of Organizations gives readers a framework and a vocabulary for understanding and describing the many systemic sociological and psychological phenomena which occur in organizations. As such, it empowers readers with a means to redesign their organizations with informed choice.
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