Workshop 2 (3.3.) Work and organizational design
Learning objectives
- Describing the key concepts in work and organizational design
- Applying design thinking to designing "futureproof" organizations
(the workshop materials are in the bottom of the page)
Mandatory reading
Gruber, M., De Leon, N., George, G., & Thompson, P. (2015). Managing by design. Academy of Management Journal, 58(1), 1-7.
Optional readings
Burton, R. M., & Obel, B. (2018). The science of organizational design: fit between structure and coordination. Journal of Organization Design, 7(1), 1-13.
Fjeldstad, Ø. D., Snow, C. C., Miles, R. E., Lettl, C. 2012. The architecture of collaboration. Strategic Management Journal, 33(6):734–775.
Gibson, C. B., Gibbs, J. L., Stanko, T., Tesluk, P., & Cohen, S. G. 2011. Including “I” in virtual and modern job design: Extending the job characteristics model to include the moderating effect of individual experiences of electronic dependence and copresence. Organization Science, 22(6): 1481–1499.
Grant, A. M., & Parker, S. K. 2009. Redesigning work design theories: The rise of relational and proactive perspectives. Academy of Management Annals, 3(1): 317–375.
Humphrey, S. E., Nahrgang, J. D., & Morgeson, F. P. 2007. Integrating motivational, social, and contextual work design features: A meta-analytic summary and theoretical extension of the work design literature. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(5): 1332–1356.
Oldham, G., & Hackman, J. 2010. Not what it was and not what it will be: The future of job design research. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(2–3): 463–479.
Oldham, G., & Fried, Y. 2016. Job design research and theory: Past, present and future. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 136(1): 20-35.
Puranam, P., Alexy, O., Reitzig, M. (2014) What’s “new” about new forms of organizing? Academy of Management Review, 39(2): 162–180
Romme A. G. L. 2003. Making a difference: organization as design. Organization Science, 14(5): 558–573
Schein, E. H. & Van Maanen, J. 2016. Career anchors and job/role planning: Tools for career and talent management. Organizational Dynamics, 45, 165-173.
Sonnentag, S. 2015. Dynamics of well-being. The Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 2, 261-293.
Van de Ven, A. H., Ganco, M., & Hinings, C. R. 2013. Returning to the frontier of contingency theory of organizational and institutional designs. Academy of Management Annals, 7(1): 393-440.