Understanding Organizations...Finally! (eBook)

Structuring in Sevens

Henry Mintzberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
256 Seiten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5230-0007-4 (ISBN)

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The iconic Henry Mintzberg provides a crystal-clear map to the forms and forces that shape all human organizations, synthesizing his fifty years of research.

We live in a world of organizations, from our birth in hospitals until our burial by funeral homes. In between, we are educated, employed, entertained, and exasperated by organizations. We had better understand how these strange beasts really work. But where can we go to find out?

Welcome to Understanding Organizations . . . Finally! For half a century, Mintzberg has been observing organizations, advising them, engaging them, and escaping them. Here he offers a masterful update and revision of his 1983 classic, Structure in Fives.

Believing there is one best way to structure organizations is the worst way to do so. A better place to start is by recognizing different species of organizations. Mintzberg identifies seven-personal enterprises, programmed machines, professional assemblies, project pioneers, and others. He explores these forms and the seven forces that drive them toward hybrids and across their life cycles.

You will find no better guide to the care and feeding of these extraordinarily varied and vital creatures than this book.

Inhalt

Preface

Chapter 1. Our World of Organizations

PART I. RE-VIEWING THE ORGANIZATION
Chapter 2. The Parts and the Players
Chapter 3. The Art, Craft, and Science of Organizing
(decision making, strategy formation, managerial work)

PART II. THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ORGANIZATION DESIGN
Chapter 4. The Mechanisms to Coordinate
Chapter 5. The Elements of Design
Chapter 6. Design in Context

PART III. FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORMS OF ORGANIZATION
Chapter 7. The Personal Enterprise
Chapter 8. The Programmed Machine
Chapter 9. The Professional Assembly
Chapter 10. The Project Pioneer
Chapter 11. The four together

PART IV SEVEN BASIC FORCES FOR ORGANIZING
Chapter 12. A Force for each Form
(efficiency, proficiency, collaboration, consolidation)
Chapter 13. Three Forces for all the Forms
(overlay of separation, infusion of culture, intrusion of conflict)

PART V. THREE MORE FORMS
Chapter 14. The Divisional Form
Chapter 15. The Community Ship
Chapter 16. The Political Arena

PART VI. BALANCING THE FORCES ACROSS THE FORMS
Chapter 17. In Praise of the Anchored Form
Chapter 18. Hail to the Hybrids
Chapter 19. Riding the Life Cycle across the Forms

PART VII. ORGANIZING BEYOND SEVENS
Chapter 20. Organizations Outward Bound
Chapter 21. Opening Up Organization Design

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2023
• Verlagsort: Oakland
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 1-5230-0007-4 / 1523000074
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5230-0007-4 / 9781523000074