The application of some principles for organizational design based on innovation and knowledge creation

• Main Authors: de Lima, E.P., Mataix, C., Lezana, A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Buildings; Costs; Knowledge management; Logic; Process design; Production systems; Teamwork; Technological innovation; Testing
• DOI: 10.1109/IEMC.2003.1252277

Coping with the environmental dynamics and complexity are the actual challenges for the organizational design area. Some new techniques, methodologies and principles are being tested to solve some emerging problems. The teamwork approach, the processes orientation, and the competences models could highlight it. The consolidation of the application of these solutions is emerging like a grounded theory. Some syntheses are built to explain the all interrelated basis, as it could be found in the Organizational Theory in the approaches of Knowledge Management, Competences Theory and Organizational Learning. Based on these frameworks some models are created to explain some features of the organizational dynamics, as it could be seen in the decision based models. This work deals with some aspects of the organizational behavior in a sense of a structural perspective. The final result will be a model synthesized by a set of organizational design principles, whose conception will use the intervening characteristic of some organizational variables that could help to construct a new rationality for organizational design. The principles will be applied in the conception of an organizational redesign project of a Developmental Non Governmental Organization (DNGO), and it will be shown the guiding principles of the design process, and the structure and areas that are bounding their conception and implementation. It will be shown the framework that oriented the design process, the real design process and contents of the organizational design.