Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Approaches to organization design
  • 3. Organizing modes: an information processing model
  • 4. Chandler's restaurant: a case of strategic choice
  • 5. Analysis of chandler's restaurant: strategic choice illustrated
  • 6. Information reduction modes
  • 7. Investment in the vertical information system
  • 8. Creation of lateral relations
  • 9. A case study
  • teams
  • 10. Lateral relations continued: integrating roles, managerial linking roles, and matrix designs
  • 11. Authority and responsibility in lateral relations
  • 12. Review of model and empirical evidence
  • 13. Case studies
  • 14. The organization and its environment
  • 15. Organization and environment: an example of production smoothing
  • 16. Integrating individuals and organizations: rewards systems
  • 17. An influence model
  • 18. Task behavior and motivational bases
  • 19. Leadership and groups
  • 20. Intrinsic rewards
  • 21. Reward systems
  • a recapitulation
  • 22. An integrating case study.