What Are the Six Key Elements in Organizational Design?
8-1 Describe six key elements in organizational design.
A short distance south of McAlester, Oklahoma, employees in a vast factory complex make products that must be perfect. These people “are so good at what they do and have been doing it for so long that they have a 100 percent market share.”3 They make bombs for the U.S. military, and doing so requires a work environment that’s an interesting mix of the mundane, structured, and disciplined, coupled with high levels of risk and emotion. The work gets done efficiently and effectively here. Work also gets done efficiently and effectively at San Diego–based videogame maker Psyonix Inc., although not in such a structured and formal way. Like ...
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