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Title: Designing Organizations to Create Value: From Strategy to Structure by Jim Brickley, Clifford Smith, Jerry Zimmerman, Janice Willett ISBN: 0-07-139392-7 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 21 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Organization theory made understandable
Comment: This book is a shorter and very readable version of the authors' well-known textbook. It provides a highly useful and straightforward framework for thinking about strategy and organizational issues, and describes how and why a company's organizational structure must dovetail with its strategic objectives in order to ensure long-term value creation. It identifies three key elements of any organizational structure--decision authority, performance evaluation, and compensation--and illustrates with numerous real-life examples how these elements must be coordinated for an effective organizational structure, and what happens when they are out of synch (e.g., Enron). Some of the examples are a little outdated (presumably from the textbook), but they make the point.
The book highlights the tradeoffs between centralization and decentralization and between incentive pay and straight compensation, and discusses how to evaluate those tradeoffs. It even shows how corporate ethics can be fostered through the three-element system. Each chapter starts with an executive summary, which aids the readability. Unlike other books on organizational approaches, there are not a lot of pat answers here, but there is a lot of food for thought at every level of management.
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Title: Corporate Tides: The Inescapble Laws of Organizational Structure by Robert Fritz ISBN: 1881052885 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Foundations of Organizational Strategy by Michael C. Jensen ISBN: 0674005643 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure, Revised and Updated by Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, Steve Kerr, Dave Ulrich ISBN: 078795943X Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 11 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton ISBN: 1591391342 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Improving Performance : How to Manage the White Space in the Organization Chart by Geary A. Rummler, Alan P. Brache ISBN: 0787900907 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 12 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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