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Organizations of all kinds create a sense of purpose and sometimes incomparable performance that individuals cannot achieve alone. This textbook examines the developments and changes that organizations should make in order to be successful in today's complex organizational environment.
The authors explain various models and concepts of organizational design, highlight the important role played by agile management and self-organization and reflect on the consequences these concepts have for practical organizational work. The necessary organizational development can only be meaningfully and successfully implemented with consideration of the existing corporate culture and knowledge of the fundamentals of knowledge management, so these are also taught in the textbook.
The overarching goal of organizational design is to promote the organization's resilience to crises. After laying the foundations for this, the penultimate chapter is dedicated to the aspect of resilience, followed by an outlook for the future.
The didactic structure of the textbook includes learning objectives, practical examples and case studies as well as learning comprehension questions and the opportunity to test your own knowledge with the Springer Nature Flashcards.
This textbook has been recommended and developed for university courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
List of contents
Organizational design in a complex and unstable world.- Organization and complexity.- Classic organizational structures.- Modern organizational concepts.- Agile management.- Self-organization.- Organizational development and knowledge management.- Organizational and leadership culture.- Organizational resilience and high reliability.- Outlook: Management fashions and organization x.0.
About the author
Prof. Dr. Jens O. Meissner heads the Interdisciplinary Future Lab CreaLab at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Professional background in organizational development at a German energy supplier. Doctorate in the field of leadership and organization at the University of Basel, researches in the field of organizational resilience as an advanced organizational discipline.
Prof. Michael Heike is Lecturer in Public Management at the Competence Center Public and Non-Profit Management at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Studied business administration and economics, professional background in corporate development at Deutsche Bahn and at a large German district administration. Expert for Balanced Scorecard in public administration and in pluralistic organizations.
Daniel Sigrist is organizational consultant with a focus on new organizational designs and work design. Trained organizationalpsychologist. Advises and consults numerous organizations on the transformation of work and organizational design towards self-organization and agility. Excellent knowledge of the usability of implementation methods.
