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How to get the Matrix Organization to Work
... , decision -making can be difficult to realize – particularly in a timely fashion – resulting in opportunity ) Alignment among contingencies: A matrix can only be successful if key contingencies are aligned with the ..." -
Exploring an Innovation Project as a Source of Change in Organization Design
... & Percival, 2013; Tushman et al., 2010), and there is an extensive literature on how managers can organize ..." -
A Neglected Role for Organizational Design: Supporting the Credibility of Delegation in Organizations
... employees communicate their information or decision criteria to a manager who decides on actions or delegated decision rights has negative motivational consequences that are costly in knowledge-intensive ..." -
Combining Theoretical Perspectives on the Organizational Structure-Performance Relationship
... view of the firm (Markides & Williamson, 1996), decision theory (Huber & McDaniel, 1986), and ..." -
Multimarket Competition
... all of their strategic decisions were coordinated by a central decision maker . Although this ..." -
What Lessons Should We Learn From Valve’s Innovative Management Model?
... , Valve is not alone in pushing a “ manager free” model. Zappos (owned by Amazon) is currently alone in pushing a “ manager free” model. Zappos (owned by Amazon) is currently experimenting with a ..." -
Activating Global Operating Models: The bridge from organization design to performance
... business can be made. Effective decision rights allow for true empowerment and speed by enabling managers ..." -
Valve Corporation: Strategy Tipping Points and Thresholds
... completely. Beyond individual biases, a host of social biases can also detrimentally impact decision -making organizational design can impact individual and collective behavior, strategy and performance. ..." -
Valve’s Organization: Opportunities and open questions
... . Moreover, it appears that Valve has uncovered how developers’ self-selection of projects and tasks can be Valve has uncovered how developers’ self-selection of projects and tasks can be a powerful motivator to ..." -
Valve's Way: Vayward, Visionary, or Voguish?
... radical one, of a spate of companies that have adopted flat hierarchies with widely distributed decision ..." -
The Role of Performance Management in Creating and Maintaining a High-Performance Organization
... a way that they provide constructive information and feedback so that organization members can ..." -
The Challenge of Being Outstanding: A Look Back and Ahead After 25 Years of Guiding Business Excellence
... of purpose, so they can be responsible decision -makers for the organization. Leaders place an ..." -
Towards Alliance Performance Management in Service Logistics
... of its comprehensive multi-stakeholder orientation, a success map can be used by alliance managers -stakeholder orientation, a success map can be used by alliance managers to understand management’s ..." -
Resume of interview with Ron Nicol, Boston Consulting Group
... organization are reduced and aligned so as to provide better decision making and reduce costs. As Nicol ..." -
Interview with Professor George Huber
... Design Community. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and of the Decision Sciences Institute and ..." -
Networks, Clusters, and Small Worlds: Are they related?
... sometimes-spontaneous emergence of these organizational forms, the extent to which they can be designed is emergence of these organizational forms, the extent to which they can be designed is not always clear. This ..." -
In the Shadow of the Crowd: A comment on "Valve’s Way"
... (1958), offers a threefold classification of the ways authority can be exercised in organizations: (1 Organizations (1958), offers a threefold classification of the ways authority can be exercised in organizations ..." -
It works – I know it works
... advantages can be much bigger: Employees are more motivated and dedicated to what they do. There are no ..." -
Closing Thoughts & Open Questions
... from micro-management can be powerful, but they remain cautious about how often this combination is ..." -
Valve Corporation: Composing Internal Markets
... internally as best it can . But, again, why not just crowdsource or contract for the work? The answer seems ..." -
Valve's Way
... What can we learn from outliers? While statisticians rightly warn us against their non ..." -
Introduction
... organizational forms can do as well as their drawbacks. Each edition of Organization Zoo will be built on a organizations, in order to learn more about what particular organizational forms can do as well as their ..."
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