Organizational Design

Sayed Mahmood Fazli

Sayed.mfazli@gmail.com
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 What is organizational Design

The action or process of organizing, ordering,

or putting into systematic form

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 What is an organization?
Organizations are social entities that are goal
directed are designed as deliberately
structured and coordinated activity system
and are linked to the external environment.

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System
The system of organizations is very similar to the
system of human beings.

Organization theory is similar to anatomy or

physiology
Systems, Systems Theory

A system is an organized collection of parts (or

subsystems) that are highly integrated to accomplish an
overall goal.

The system has various inputs, which go through certain

processes to produce certain outputs, which together,
accomplish the overall desired goal for the system.

A system is usually made up of many smaller systems, or

subsystems:

1. Open System ( interact with its environment) and

2. Closed Systems (does not interact with its environment)
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A system can be said to consist of four things

The first is objects – the parts, elements, or variables

Second, a system consists of attributes – the qualities
or properties of the system and its objects.
Third, a system has internal relationships among its
objects.
Fourth, systems exist in an environment.

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Organizational Design

Execution is critical to success, yet the majority of

companies struggle to translate strategy into action.

Recent studies including a survey of more than 1,000

organizations globally, reveal that 60 per cent of
organizations fail to execute their strategy effectively.

One of the most widespread obstacles to execution is the

gap between the nature of work in turbulent markets and
the techniques managers use to get things done.
(Don Sull , 2010)

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Organization design sets out to answer the question:
What is the best way to organize a group with a shared purpose to get
things done and achieve its strategic intent?
 To find the optimal form for an organization to maximize its
performance. Form is much more than structure; organizations need to
be viewed holistically with many more dimensions considered and kept
in alignment.
 Organization design is the art, the science and the business of
building effective organizations.
 It is a deep expertise and competence, consisting of knowledge from
theory and experience

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