1st Edition

Organizational Development Designing Episodic Interventions

By Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens Copyright 2019
364 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Organizational Development gives readers an understanding of organizational structures and presents a new and easy-to-understand framework which describes the three dimensions of organizational interventions. Interventions in organization often fail. This has been widely acknowledged: many books exist about the topic and many approaches are proposed to guide organizational interventions –... Read more

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Part I: Interventions in Organizational Structures: Theoretical underpinnings; Chapter 2. Understanding Organizations as Social Systems; Chapter 3. Organizational Structures; Chapter 4. Episodic Interventions in Organizational Structures; Part II: Designing Interventions in Organizational Structures; Chapter 5. The 3-D Model in Overview; Chapter 6. The Functional Dimension; Chapter 7. The Social Dimension; Chapter 8. The Infrastructural Dimension; Index

Biography

Jan Achterbergh (MSc Philosophy; PhD Policy Sciences) is Assistant Professor Organizational Design and Development at the Nijmegen School of Management of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, since 1999. His research interests include organizational structures and business ethics, interventions in organizations, and the design of organizational networks.

Dirk Vriens (MSc Psychology; PhD Policy Sciences) is Associate Professor Organizational Design and Development at the Nijmegen School of Management of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His current research interests include organizational cybernetics, designing organizational structures, and moral behaviour in organizations.