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by Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya (Author)
This textbook explores major issues and concepts in organizational structure and design. It details strategic and business issues that merit consideration while framing or designing the organizational structure.
Working with a range of industry examples and case studies, this volume:
- Relates organizational structure and design issues with organizational culture and change management, power and politics, and policies and strategies
- Covers several key topics, including the structure-strategy debate, viable system model, issues pertaining to organizational culture, change management, power, and conflict
- Discusses various models of organizational structure like matrix, global business unit, strategic business unit, hybrid, functional and divisional, modular, networked, agile, helix, etc., in relation to organizational practices and their strategic influence over the organization
- Enables readers to challenge organizational design in times of uncertainty
Concise, lucid, and engaging, this book will be useful to students, academics, management researchers, and industry professionals in the fields of general management, organizational behaviour, and human resource management and development.
Author Biography
Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya is an ex-Professor of Human Resource Management at XIMB, Bhubaneswar. He has served as the Director of the Centre for Management Education, AIMA, New Delhi, as well as the Dean of the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Kolkata. He has also previously taught at IMT, Ghaziabad, and ICFAI Business School. He is currently a Visiting Professor at XLRI, Jamshedpur, IMT, Ghaziabad, DMI, Patna, Firebird, Coimbatore, SRM University, AP, IIM, Ranchi, and IIM, Kozhikode.
