Re:The Skill of Org Design
by HappyDreamer on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:19AM
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You can look at a chain, and see: This link is broken, the chain is broken. But if it looks intact, you cannot just from looking at it, know how strong it is.
My feeling is that this could be a good way to filter out highly dysfunctional organizations. However I don't think you can find successful ones that easily, let alone come up with an magical organizational structure that automatically leads to success.
That might be because there are a lot of tiny details that might shape a organization much more than the pure structure of departments and roles. Let's say organization A and organization B have the same structure and do the same thing in the same field, but organization A has a good HR department which manages to attract good people and have them work for decades at the company, while organization B has a bad HR department, hires incompetent, fraudulent and downright nasty people, who don't stay on the job for long – wouldn't this make such a huge difference that differences stemming from the pure structure of the organization would be drowned out?
Of course you could now think about how a organizational structure could prevent this from happening, and maybe with the right structure and people checking each others decisions the likelyhood of such a bad outcome could be mitigated – but never fully.