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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Organizational design"”.
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Sensor-based organizational design and engineering
We propose a sensor-based organizational design and engineering approach that combines behavioral sensor data with other sources of information such as e-mail, surveys, and performance data in order to design interventions aimed at improving organizational outcomes. The proposed system combines …
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Information operations (IO) organizational design and procedures
Multi National Force (MNF) operations recognize the existence of shared national interests in a specific geographic region. Furthermore, MNF operations seek to standardize some basic concepts and processes that will promote habits of cooperation, increased dialogue, and provide for baseline …
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Customer Induced Uncertainty and Its Impact on Organizational Design
… challenging question for today's managers and organizational researchers. Proponents of contingency theory have argued that organizations must adjust their activities to fit the level of environmental uncertainty to ensure long-term survival. Although much work has been done on contingency …
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A Systems-Theoretic Approach to Organizational Design and Analysis
… challenge for large organizations lies in organizational design, particularly for public sector bureaucracies and the largest of industry’s private firms. Organizations tend to turn to organizational design improvements when facing effectiveness and efficiency issues. Unfortunately, these …
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Organizational design : the integration of pharmaceutical discovery and development
… Following a congruence approach to organization design these differences imply that a complete merging of discovery and development functions would lead to poor fit between organizational design elements. This leaves an ongoing requirement for integrative systems which can preserve the important …
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Organizational Design of Secondary Aviation/Aerospace/Engineering Career Education Programs
… was to identify and evaluate the underlying organizational factors of successful secondary aviation / aerospace / engineering career education programs, through application of measures traditionally associated with organizational theory.</p> <p>Analysis of collected data involved exploratory …
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Cloud computing and its implications for organizational design and performance
… processes could have a potential effect on organizational structure as well as performance. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the implications of adopting cloud computing for organizational design and performance. It focuses on how a lowering in the costs associated with IT might …
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Pharmaceutical R&D : an organizational design approach to enhancing productivity
… and entrepreneurial models in a wave of organizational redesigns that is aimed at delivering innovation and creating value. In this research, I have studied this new trend in organizational redesign by finding out what went wrong with the old model, what are the drivers for change, what …
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Evolution of the entrepreneurial firm product strategy and organizational design
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Determinants of team effectiveness for cross-functional organizational design teams
… comes the need for research to better define the design and management requirements unique to specific types of teams. This research focused on cross-functional design teams tasked with the organizational redesign of sociotechnical work systems. A design team is a cross-functional multi-lex el …
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Redesigning the United States Department of Education for localized ideation through user-centric research and organizational design
Education inequality in the United States is a complex challenge to tackle, and one that a centralized enterprise isn't always equipped to address. The United States Department of Education has a mission to bring a quality, globally-competitive education to all students in the US, but leaves to the …
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The response to Hurricane Katrina : a study of the Coast Guard's culture, organizational design & leadership in crisis
Hurricane Katrina slammed into the United States Gulf Coast early on August 28, 2005 killing almost 2,000 people and causing $81 billion in damages making Katrina the costliest natural disaster in United States history. The sheer magnitude of the devastation and destruction in New Orleans and the …
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A qualitative case study of one Hispanic-serving community college’s use of the multicultural organizational design model to describe equity-centered services.
… Guided by the multicultural organization design (MCOD) framework, this qualitative single-site case study examined how a leadership team at a Hispanic-Serving CC describes and implements equity-centered approaches to addressing the academic, social, and basic needs of low-income students. …
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Multihospital Systems Wave of the Future in Healthcare
… whether or not, this will be the principle organizational design for health care institutions in the years to come (i.e. short term future). All available data indicates that this form of organizational adaptation is much more than an idiosyncratic fluke of the health care industry. The …
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Designing the organizational structure for an entrepreneurial venture
… problems in the areas of people management and organizational structure. This thesis analyzes the current organizational design of BS Grupo using three lenses: strategic, political and cultural. Recommendations are made to develop a new organizational design that supports the growth plans of the …
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The Design Dimensions of the Just Organization: An Empirical Test of the Relation Between Organization Design and Corporate Social Performance
Although organization design to bring about corporate social performance (CSP) is a critical issue in the business and society field, little research has been conducted. This study is an empirical test of the general model of the just organization presented by Stephens and colleagues (1991; …
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A CAD tool for supermind design
… In this thesis, I present a CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tool for designing and configuring superminds. This tool is based on the supermind design methodology developed at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. It aims to enable users to generate innovative possibilities for how to design …
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The "Equalizer" Administration: Managerial Strategies in the Public Sector
… the study provides a review of the literature on organizational design. It highlights the "goodness of fit" proposition on strategic choice issues concerning the main organizational variables design and organizational goal attainment. It also calls special attention to the emerging interest of …
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Managing flexibility in the supply chain
… supply chain, economics, strategy, organizational design, and industrial networks. Next, tools for evaluating flexibility are discussed: Decision analysis, decision trees, and real options. Lastly, an analysis of the literature and tools is incorporated into a set of guidelines for …
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A design for dynamic self-organization in autonomous distributed operations
… Distributed Operations (ADO) and presents a design for self-organization within this framework. Self-organization is shown as an integration of five activities that include goal evaluation and adoption, organizational strategizing, goal decomposition and aggregation, organizational design, …
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