Emerging Issues in Organization Design

Emerging Concepts in Organization Design

As the Organization operates in Dynamic environment, change is inevitable. Change in technology, knowledge and globalization brings in new concepts. Following are some of the emerging concepts in organization design.

 

1.  Re-engineering Concept:

-The fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes

-  Intended to achieve dramatic improvements in performance.

-  Change the orientation from vertical to horizontal.

-  Change task interdependence.

-  Change in structure, technology and people.

 

2. Team work concept

-  An approach to organization design that relies almost exclusively on project-type teams, with little or no underlying functional hierarchy

-  People float from project to project as necessitated by their skills and the demands of those projects.

-  Collective Performance: Generates synergy through coordinated efforts.

-  Breaks down departmental barriers.

-  Apple Computer and Xerox are moving toward it.

Types of Work Team:

Problem Solving Team -a temporary team assembled to solve a specific problem.

Cross functional team - made up of employees from about the same hierarchical level, but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task.

Virtual team- has little or no formal structure

Self-managed team - groups of employees (typically 10 to 15 in number) who perform highly related or interdependent jobs and take on many of the responsibilities of their former supervisors.

 

3.  Network organization concept:

  Alliance of several organizations having common purpose.

 Contract out any business function, which can be done better or more cheaply.

Outsources business functions, harnesses volunteer labor, leverages information technology services and adopts a minimalist model.

 

4.  Downsizing organization concept:

Process of bringing an organization structure to an appropriate size.

Minimize vertical size and maximize horizontal size.

Planned reduction of levels, jobs, units and employees.

An organization’s conscious use of permanent personnel reductions in an attempt to improve its efficiency and/or effectiveness

 

5.  Boundary less organization concept:

Not bound by predetermined vertical horizontal and external boundaries, i.e. not defined or limited by boundaries or categories imposed by traditional structures.

Also known as Barrier free or Modular organization.

Elimination of Chain of Command: No barrier to information flow.

Unlimited Span of Control.

 

6.  Virtual concept:

Temporary network of Organizations.

Part of a network in which many companies share skills, costs, capabilities, markets, and customers with each other, i.e. Outsourcing.

Exists within a network of alliances, using the Internet.

Unlimited Span of Control.

 

7.  Learning organization concept:

An organization that has developed the capacity to continuously adapt and change 

All members take an active role in identifying and resolving work-related issues

Features:

          -Organization Design

          -Information sharing

- Leadership

-Organizational culture

People at all levels, individually and collectively, are continually increasing their capacity to produce results they really care about.

 

 That's All.

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