Friday, February 24, 2012
[IWS] ADB: ON ORGANIZATIONAL CONFIGURATIONS [February 2012]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Knowledge Solutions
On Organizational Configurations
Date: February 2012
by Oliver Serrat
http://beta.adb.org/publications/organizational-configurations
or
http://beta.adb.org/sites/default/files/on-organizational-configurations.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages
Description
To manage organizations in ways that will make our society manageable, we need to spark innovations in management. Consider the organization in which you work. What configuration does it have and what does that tell you? What might you do to enhance the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of its structure?
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