If you don't design an organizational structure, you'll end up with one anyway. Organizational structure happens at every company, either by conscious choice or unconscious evolution. Conscious choice ...

Though a company's top management must consider many issues when designing an organization's structure, they all relate to only a few design elements. Designers start with the most basic issue of a ...

For most companies, organization design could be seen as an oxymoron: Organizational structures rarely arise from systematic and planned intervention. They tend to evolve and emerge over time in ...

Adjusting an organizational chart and making an organizational change is not necessarily going to improve performance. In order to drive performance improvement, organizational design needs to be ...

Like the road network in a community or the design of the hull on a boat, the forces of your organizational structure are constantly at work. A well-designed organization will enable your call center ...

The saying 'the sum of the parts is greater than the whole' accurately applies to the Skanska companies. The U.S. affiliate of Sweden-based Skanska AB has parlayed its flat organizational structure ...

Ensuring your HR team is appropriately organized and structured is critical to your success. Here’s more about the types of ...

Flat organizations reduce management layers to boost communication, agility and morale, but they may struggle with role clarity and career advancement.

This paper develops a parsimonious process-level theory that connects organizational structure to exploration and exploitation. Toward this end, it develops a mathematical model of organizational ...

An organizational structure defines the scope of acceptable behavior within an organization, its lines of authority and accountability, and to some extent the organization’s relationship with its ...