Organizational Structuralism

A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Hypothesis for the Interpretation of Organizational Phenomena
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-16051-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 706 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 944 g

In an era in which leadership and change management models, tools and development schemes based on soft skills constitute mainstream thought, it has become ever more necessary to develop a scientific and rigorous approach to the life of an organization that can overcome the challenges of different cultural approaches and socio-environmental limitations. In this ground-breaking new book, the author puts forward a universal model for designing an organization. The model is based upon first principles, theoretical properties as well as empirical approaches to organizational development so as to form a new model under the name of “Organizational Structuralism”. By deploying this new model, the author argues that organizations will be able to design a new organization from its foundations, improve and change fundamental organizational structures, define and fine-tune key performance indicators and enhance their competitive advantages. Additionally, the model proposed in this book will allow practitioners to be able to respond effectively and efficiently to every disruptive or non-continuous evolutionary change caused either by the digital transformation or by geopolitical of organizations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langas, Kostas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 An Attempt to Introduction.- Chapter 2 Organisational Fields and Organisational Processes.- Chapter 3 Introduction to Organisation Structuralism.- Chapter 4 Fundamental properties of Organisational Structuralism: from homogeneity to autonomy.- Chapter 5 Methodological Foundations of Organisational Structuralism.- Chapter 6 Organizational first principles and introduction to the Organizational Field Theory.- Chapter 7 The structural evolution of an organization (a geometric approach).- Chapter 8 Graphical representations of some fundamental properties of organizational structuralism.- Chapter 9 Organizational structuralism and mathematical symbolism.- Chapter 10 The microstructure of structural organizations.- Chapter 11 The processes: from Masys to single entities and to unified arrays.- Chapter 12 The definition of organizational objectives in a structural organization.- Chapter 13 THE FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF AN EVALUATION SYSTEM.- Chapter 14 The extinction of the species of a Manager: an animal that did not manage to sustain the multidisciplinarity or the managerial world of the new era: digitists, anelyxists or avrions? - Chapter 15 Organisational Structuralism for a new ethics of organisations (and not only).

Über Autor(innen)

Kostas Langas has worked for many years as Senior Consultant for many multinational corporations and for Public Institutions in Italy and Greece. He was the CEO of PROTI CONSULTING and of PROTIAS Ltd. He has worked for many years in strategic consulting projects related to organizational reengineering, process improvement and change management. The main fields of his theoretical and practical interests are the studies of analysis and theoretical development of organizations, process management, strategic management and related HR processes methods and techniques, analysis and development of systems for the assessment and evaluation of all organizational variables and assets as well as complex competency and performance development organizational systems. He has taught in many European and American Universities. He is currently Adjunct Professor at POLIMI (former MIP) of the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is also Visiting Professor and Member of the Advisory Boards at theUniversities of Ferrara and at Bologna Business School (BBS).