Here's a guide that shows managers how to choose the best organizational design for their business from five basic structures identified by the author. In it readers will discover how to avoid typical mistakes, especially those pertaining to conflict among different divisions.
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A presentation and synthesis of the research on what it takes to design an effective organization.
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Here's a guide that shows managers how to choose the best organizational design for their business from five basic structures identified by the author. In it readers will discover how to avoid typical mistakes, especially those pertaining to conflict among different divisions.
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Knowledge you can use,
This review is from: Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations (Paperback)
In 1970 Mintzberg compiled the state of the art academic knowledge into "The Structuring of Organizations". Much of the 512 pages, by his own admission, were devoted to references and supporting evidence. Structures in Fives in 1983, is a less academic and more practical version of the former, which has become one of the seminal works in Organisation.
Mintzberg work condenses knowledge from academic papers into clear and useful concepts and makes it accessible to the practitioners involved in creating organisations. The result is a highly structured approach to the subject, probably one of the reasons why it is used as a text book in several business schools. Anyone interested in designing organisations or understanding what makes an organisation effective should read this book.
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This review is from: Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations (Paperback)
If you are looking to understand the various possible structures of companies, the pros and cons therein, trade offs and advantages, read the book. It's not very entertaining, but rather dry. However, I expected that so I wasn't let down.
Really the concepts taught here could have been explained easily in half the pages, but Mintzberg loves his data. That data is overwhelming for this book, and half of it could have been left out. Maybe I am not the target audience. However, I prefer a little too much data than a shortage of it. Mintzberg has laid out, with clarity, the structures of companies. He shows that he can think ahead of his time. So many books today espouse one heavily weighted enterprise structure (say, a market focused one) without helping its readers understand the cons. Educational, dry, enlightening. Worth the time, though I would prefer a shorter version.
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Good choice for those who want to learn about management and the design of successful organizations.
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