The Resurgence of Organization Design and Its Significance for Management Education
Today’s management educators must pay closer attention to organization design as a central topic of management and organization studies. Because managers and academics typically associate the concept of organization design with financial and reporting structures, they neglect questions related to et...
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| description | Today’s management educators must pay closer attention to organization design as a central topic of management and organization studies. Because managers and academics typically associate the concept of organization design with financial and reporting structures, they neglect questions related to ethics, image, reputation, internal and external relationships, or societal role. This contributes to a managerial discourse in which organization design is seen as something amoral and agnostic, solely focused on the effective and efficient management of investor resources. As a result, we are faced with poor standards of organizational ethics and the systematic disregard for the organization’s social and environmental responsibilities. This paper argues that organization design should be a superordinate theme of management education. As such, it can contribute to a much needed shift in the current state of affairs. However, the topic must be reformed at its core and reinstated on the agenda of management education. Design principles and design logics anchor proposed reforms, set against the backdrop of current trends in design thinking. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb5352e683094679a7e637f135b94c0f2022-12-21T23:15:00ZengElsevierShe Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation2405-87262020-01-0164482504The Resurgence of Organization Design and Its Significance for Management EducationRodrigo Magalhaes0INESC-ID (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa), PortugalToday’s management educators must pay closer attention to organization design as a central topic of management and organization studies. Because managers and academics typically associate the concept of organization design with financial and reporting structures, they neglect questions related to ethics, image, reputation, internal and external relationships, or societal role. This contributes to a managerial discourse in which organization design is seen as something amoral and agnostic, solely focused on the effective and efficient management of investor resources. As a result, we are faced with poor standards of organizational ethics and the systematic disregard for the organization’s social and environmental responsibilities. This paper argues that organization design should be a superordinate theme of management education. As such, it can contribute to a much needed shift in the current state of affairs. However, the topic must be reformed at its core and reinstated on the agenda of management education. Design principles and design logics anchor proposed reforms, set against the backdrop of current trends in design thinking.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872620300654Organization designManagement educationDesign thinkingManagerial discourseOrganizational reframing |
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| title | The Resurgence of Organization Design and Its Significance for Management Education |
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| title_sort | resurgence of organization design and its significance for management education |
| topic | Organization design Management education Design thinking Managerial discourse Organizational reframing |
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