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This 3 page paper discusses organization design, how design choices impact companies, and various types of organization structures. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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importance of such choices; and describes four different strategic organizational structures. Discussion A definition of organizational design that makes the concept very clear is provided by Roy Autry of Inovus,
Inc., who says "Organization Design is a formal, guided process for integrating the people, information and technology of an organization. It is used to match the form of the organization
as closely as possible to the purpose(s) the organization seeks to achieve" (Autry, 1996). For instance, if an organizations mission is to turn out products or services quickly, it will
not adopt a process that takes months to manufacture one part. In an interesting essay, Jane Linder reminds us all about organizational charts-those spider webs that connect little boxes with
peoples names in them-and notes that they are the products of an organization design process (2005). However, while the process is valid, the charts may no longer be effective or
realistic since companies in general are much more complex today than they were when this concept was first used. The point is that while the outcome may not be as
useful as it once was, the process still works. Five specific design elements in organization design are provided by William O. Lytle, who writes that organizational change occurs in
five stages, with "the first four of limited duration and the fifth of indeterminate length" (Lytle, 2002, p. 69). The five are "exploration, planning and preparation, analysis and design, implementation,
and renewal" (Lytle, 2002, p.69). Shani and Stebbins seem to echo Lytles description of the five elements, in slightly different terms; they describe the process as consisting of "preliminary project
planning, project startup, project study/analysis, implementation planning, implementation, and implementation monitoring" (1987, p. 187). They have broken the steps down into slightly smaller increments, but the structure is much the
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