Designing Organizaitons: An Executive Briefing onStrategy, Structure, and Process
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JAY R. GALBRAITH is professor of Management and Organization and senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Organizing for the Future (with E. Lawler, Jossey-Bass, 1993), named one of the top ten business books of 1993 by Industry Week.

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1. Introduction: Four Immutable Forces Shaping Today's Organizations
Part One: A Framework for Organizational Design
2. Choosing an Effective Design
3. Matching Strategy and Structure
4. Linking Processes to Coordination Needs
5. Creating and Integrating Group Processes
Part Two: Pathways to New Organizational Forms
6. Using Design as an Evolutionary Change Agent
7. Creating a Virtual Corporation
8. Leading and Integrating a Networked Organization
9. Organizing the Continuous Design Process

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"In our complex and rapidly changing business environment, business leaders have an increasing need to understand how organization design alternatives can help or impede their company's competitiveness. Jay has taken a little understood subject and provided a framework and thoughts that help business leaders deal with this issue." -Lawrence R. Phillips, senior human resources officer, Citicorp

"Jay Galbraith is the architect for CEOs, HR executives, and all others responsible for building organizational capability, His design principles and models are an excellent foundation for shaping an effective organization." -Stephen Balogh, vice president human resources, Raychem Corporation

"A must read for anyone who is ready for a dose of clear thinking on organization strategy and design. Jay Galbraith understands strategy and structure better than anyone I know." -Edward E. Lawler, director, Center for Effective Organizations, and author of The Ultimate Advantage

"A powerful and practical book for managers who seek to design state-of-the-art organizations for competitive advantage." -Stuart S. Winby, director of product processes change management, Hewlett Packard Company

"An easily understood approach that any businessperson or organization specialist in Human Resources might follow to build structure based on an analysis of the company's strategies and needs. Jay Galbraith's teaching experience and extensive knowledge of many corporate structures and strategies allow him to discuss actual applications of these concepts. He knows what works and why." -Richard L. Schaulin, vice-president human resources, GTE Telephone Operations
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