The Sinister Underbelly of Organization Design
- Organization Design is completely manufactured
- It’s mission: To protect the organization, from everything and everyone, even from its own employees
- Organization Design is more often than not, used as a tool that disadvantages employees
- Organization design controls and manipulates employee behaviour
❌ Organization design should not:
- Stifle creativity
- Create a bureaucratic quagmire
- Foster silos
- Produce dehumanizing work
- Add to burnout and overwork
- Produce ethical dilemmas for employees
- Enhance inequality and discrimination
- Limit employee autonomy
- Add to resistance to change
- Accelerate organization cultural erosion