Strategies for Organization Design: Using the Peopletecture Model to Improve Collaboration and Performance [Hardcover]

Design better organizations with humans at the center

In Strategies for Organization Design: Using the Peopletecture Model to Improve Collaboration and Performance, EYs People Advisory Principal, Dr. Tiffany McDowell, delivers an insightful exploration of organization design. Dr. McDowell combines expertise in both applied management and psychology to solve stubborn company challenges with practical solutions. Readers will have the opportunity to apply these solutions immediately to create positive impact, deal with rapid change, and consistently innovate at scale.

In the book, youll learn to:

• Accelerate organizational transformation in a data-driven and evidence-based way
• Make your organizations work mean and matter more to the people doing it
• Use insights drawn from network science, human motivation, behavioral economics, and organization theory to drive meaningful collaboration

A groundbreaking, yet accessible new approach to building an exciting, innovative, and future-proofed organization, Strategies for Organization Design deserves a place in the hands of managers, executives, and other business leadersas well as the consultants and specialists who serve them and their companieswho are looking for hands-on solutions twenty-first century business challenges.

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Right Intentions, Wrong Focus 1

Chapter 2 Solving the Right Problem 9

Chapter 3 The Peopletecture Model 19

Chapter 4 Hierarchy 25

Chapter 5 Networks 37

Chapter 6 Hierarchy Versus Networks 59

Chapter 7 Measurement 65

Chapter 8 Membership 83

Chapter 9 Responsibility 97

Chapter 10 Teaming 111

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