EDEN DOCTORAL SEMINAR ON ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

The Eden seminar will focus on the understanding and development of an organizational design knowledge framework. How do we as researchers apply our understanding of organization theory, including new forms, and our knowledge about organizations to the development of a robust research-based normative framework on an organizational design appropriate for the situation and condition of the organization, particularly in today’s rapidly changing world? Organizational Design begins with an understanding of organization theory, but goes beyond understanding how organizations behave to consider how they should be designed in a world of rapid change, information abundance. Design is complex and requires the integration of knowledge from various fields and points of view and disciplines. This synthesis is obtained from an information processing view of organization, or how organizations use, transmit and interpret information. The seminar will present a number of models for organizational design coupled with theory and experimentation.