Designing Effective Organizations

Foreword - Samuel A Culbert PART ONE: ORGANIZATION THEORY FROM A TRANSFORMATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Organizations and Organization Theory Of Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts The Industrial Era Paradigm Transformational Thinking The Emerging Paradigm Creating the New-Paradigm Organization Systems Thinking in Organization Theory The Metamodel of Organization Transformation and Organizational Effectiveness PART TWO: THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS Macro Structural Variables The Creation and Evolution of Organizational Structure Emerging Organizational Designs PART THREE: THE CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONS The Environment of Organizations Organizational Technology and Structure Organizational Size and Structure Power, Politics and Structure Strategy and Structure PART FOUR: THE PROCESSES OF ORGANIZATION The Organizational Life Cycle Organizational Culture Structural Conflict in Organizations Facilitating the New-Paradigm Organization