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A member of the AWL OD Series! This text focuses on how firms can create a competitive advantage by building lateral capability so they can respond flexibly in an uncertain world. It addresses international coordination and cross business unit coordination, as well as the usual cross functional efforts.

If there's anything more challenging than designing a company, it's designing a global company. Balancing strategy and structure becomes even more daunting when geography, foreign governments, and worldwide customers and products are thrown into the mix. And no single design works for all organizations. In this book, internationally recognized expert Jay Galbraith shows companies how to match their own strengths and strategies with proven desi...

Excerpt from An Empirical Investigation of the Motivational Determinants of Task Performance: Interactive Effects Between Instrumentality-Valence and Motivation-Ability The vehicle chosen to start such an analysis is a model of motivation suggested by Vroom (1964 The model will be briefly reviewed and interpreted in terms of the operative worker's organizational role. Following the conceptualization, the model will be operationalized by spec...

Organization structures do not fail, says Jay Galbraith, but management fails at implementing them correctly. This is why, he explains, the idea that the matrix does not work still exists today, even among people who should know better. But the matrix has become a necessary form of organization in today's business environment. Companies now know that if they have multiple product lines, do business in multiple countries, and serve many custome...