How Solid Is Requisite Organization?
Chapter excerpt from Organization Design, Levels of Complexity and Human Capability.
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Many executives take action on strategy, organizational design, staffing, and management system issues by following a colleague’s success, a bench marking activity of best practices, an article or book they have read or perhaps take the recommendations of a well-recommended consulting firm. Often they may act on direction without really understanding the theory or evidence behind what they are doing. Is it just a fad? How solid is it? Do I understand it well enough?
Herb Koplowitz, Ph.D, a senior management consultant and a registered psychologist grounded in developmental theory and the philosophy of science, had the privilege of intellectual comradeship with Elliott Jaques over more than ten years. His own curiosity and questioning dialogues with Dr. Jaques on what in requisite organization was science and what was something else led to his stimulating article, “How Solid Is Requisite Organization?”
Herb Koplowitz, Ph.D, a senior management consultant and a registered psychologist grounded in developmental theory and the philosophy of science, had the privilege of intellectual comradeship with Elliott Jaques over more than ten years. His own curiosity and questioning dialogues with Dr. Jaques on what in requisite organization was science and what was something else led to his stimulating article, “How Solid Is Requisite Organization?”
