This highly acclaimed book explores key issues of organization design and identifies practical new approaches for managing complex organizations to stay competitive in a rapidly changing global marketplace.

The authors describe how to create an organization with high levels of employee involvement and new roles for managers.

They detail the use of new organizational forms, including knowledge work and managerial teams, structuring human resource systems around skill levels and creating such new types of organizations as distributed staffs and virtual networks. And they explain how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.

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