Guidelines for Organizational Design
Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhDSuggested Previous Reading
The reader would be best served to first read materials referenced from the Basics (in Introduction to Organizations), which includes:- - - Basic Definition of Organization (including some optional reading about systems thinking)
- - - Various Ways to Look at Organizations (as systems, organisms, etc)
- - - Two Basic Types of U.S. Business Organizations -- For-Profit and Nonprofit
- - - Legal Forms and Traditional Structures of U.S. Businesses (for-profit and nonprofit)
- - - Common Dimensions in Organizations (features to consider about organizations)
- - - Key Concepts in the Design of an Organization
- - - Organizational Culture (the "personality" of the organization)
- - - Life Cycles of Organizations
Guidelines for Organizational Design
What is Organization Design? (conceptual overview of purpose of design)Principles of Organizational Design (outline of key concepts to consider)
Basic Context of Organizational Change
Guidelines to Reorganize a Current Organization
Organizing (how to arrange matters in organizations so people can work well together)
Organizing Staff in an Organization
Also see:
Organizational Change (what it is, how to accomplish it, etc.)Organizational Change (outline of general advice for what type of structure to use and when)
Developing Organization Charts
Organization charts (or "org charts" as they affectionately are known) are graphical depictions of the official roles/positions in the organization and their relationship to each other, e.g., the top position and authority in the organization and then what other positions formally report to which other positions thorughout the organization. Org charts are very common, especially in oganizations with 5 or more people. The following guidelines will help you to understand org charts and how to develop them for your own organization. Benefits of an Organizational ChartHow to Build an Org Chart
Organizational Chart (Wikipedia)
The Power of Org Charts Done Right
How Org Charts Lie
Cogmap: an organizational chart wiki, providing free access to thousands of organization charts
For the Category of Organizational Development:
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books
Managing Organizational Change
Managing Organizational Change
Field
Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides complete, step-by-step guidelines to identify complex issues in for-profit or government organizations and successfully resolve each of them. This book is also helpful to organizations that are doing fine now, but want to evolve to the next level of performance. This is one of the truly comprehensive, yet practical, books about this complex subject! Includes online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library's topic about guiding change are adapted from this comprehensive book.
Field
Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development With Nonprofits
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides complete, step-by-step guidelines to identify complex issues in nonprofit organizations and successfully resolve each of them. This book is also helpful to organizations that are doing fine now, but want to evolve to the next level of performance. This is one of the truly comprehensive, yet practical, books about this complex subject! Includes online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library's topic about guiding change are adapted from this comprehensive book.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Growing Your Organization
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Also See
Capacity Building (Nonprofit) -- Recommended Books
