Essentials of Organization Theory & Design

This volume presents organizational concepts and models, integrated with lots of detailed examples to illustrate how companies are coping in the rapidly-changing, highly-competitive, international environment. Without sacrificing content, this text should be useful for shorter organizational theory courses or for instructors who use their own cases and material.

 Part I Introduction to organizations: organizations and organization theory. Part II Organizational purpose and structural design: strategy, organization design and effectiveness; fundamentals of organization structure. (Part contents).