Whether small or large, each company must consider the way in which its organization is designed and structured. To operate effectively and efficiently, a company needs a formal system of ...

Hi everyone. Remember that when setting up your company, you face a number of crucial decisions. In this article we’ll address how to choose the various forms of business organization (also known as ...

If you don't design an organizational structure, you'll end up with one anyway. Organizational structure happens at every company, either by conscious choice or unconscious evolution. Conscious choice ...

There is light at the end of this pandemic tunnel, and as organizations contemplate whether or when to bring people back into the office, the questions we hear most from leaders are “How will we ...

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian management theorist who focused on what managers actually do at work. He described 10 everyday roles that managers play, grouped into three types: working with people ...

Gulati, Ranjay, Phanish Puranam, and Michael Tushman. "Meta-Organizational Design: Rethinking Design in Inter-Organizational and Community Contexts." Special Issue on Strategy and the Design of ...

In this column, I have argued that the conventional practice and theory of change management could itself benefit from some overhaul. In this post, I will zoom out, summarizing nine key propositions ...

At SFU, we utilize job evaluation systems to objectively determine the relative value of jobs within the University through a systematic study and detailed analysis of job duties, accountability and ...

Organizational research generally does not use experiments or multivariate analysis to verify propositions. This paper indicates four types of designs that characterize such research. Suggestions are ...