This book describes how to organize people to achieve a desired outcome. This is done by establishing sets of rules from "real world" organizational contexts. From this theoretical framework, generalized design rules are identified that can be used to design structures with specific purposes. The book discusses, examines, and demonstrates the interrelationship of the design rules and their use within organizational structures. Throughout the book, the authors use an extended example of the Masters Brewing Corporation (MBC) to illustrate the conceptual material and to make the implications of the organizational analysis explicitly concrete.

Extends the theoretical discussion and conceptual work in organizational design by carefully demonstrating the interrelation of design rules with organization structure and the proposed purpose of organization structures Develops design rules from "real work" organization structures Utilizes a concrete case example throughout the book of the Master Brewing Corporation to illustrate concepts, theory and the prescriptive application of the organizational design

Inhalt
Structure, Performance, Cost, and Outcome.- Organization Structures.- Properties of the Organization Structure.- Structures: Connections, Consistency and Cost.- Properties of Transformations, Environments and Structure Performance.- Analytic Mappings: From Substructure Performance and Environments to Outcomes.- Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part One.- Analytic Mappings: From Structure to Performance, Part Two.- The Efficiency of the Design Process.- Design Mappings: Design Rule Derivation and Use.- Design Rules for Organization Structure Performance Properties.- Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part A.- Design Rules for Organization Substructure Properties and Components: Part B.- A Useful Process of Design.