Organisation design seen through systematic design
Year: 2019
Editor: Wartzack, Sandro; Schleich, Benjamin; Gon
Author: Cornelis, Thomas (1,2); Dubois, Patrice (1); Omhover, Jean-Fran
Series: ICED
Institution: Arts et M
Section: Design methods and tools
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.161
ISSN: 2220-4342
Abstract
Organizations seeking to improve their performance, like Corporate Social Responsibility targets, face a key organisational design challenge. Designing the key components of the organization and their layout will have major impact on performances, and needs thus a robust design process. Organisation theory provides several models and methods to answer that need. Yet this design process has not been confronted to design methods literature, such as systematic design. The aim of this paper is to provide a synthesis of multiple theoretical elements coming from organization sciences, confronted with a classical engineering design model, to reveal similarities, differences and lacks of current literature on organization design. Our analysis of the available literature on organisation theory, organisation design and change management showed that this design process is close to systematic design, but we also highlighted several breaks in the design process, such as the lack of functional approach.
Keywords: Organisation design, Design methods, Design process, Organizational processes