id: 1261,8
title: Triadic profile of organizational design.
date: 2022-08-27

Triadic profile of organizational design.

All organizational traits can be described through the three categories of human interaction: control, cooperation, and autonomy.

Strategy (control).

Constituencies (cooperation): Who the org is for.
Character (autonomy): Organization’s essential nature.
Capabilities (control): Competing in the market.

Structure (autonomy).

Org chart (control): Reporting relations.
Layout (autonomy): Interactions encouraged by design.
Interdependence (cooperation): Work and information flows.

Systems (cooperation)

Rewards (autonomy): Behavioral reinforcement.
Meetings (cooperation): Reasons to communicate.
Decisions (control): Exercise of authority.

↩
Robert W Keidel, Seeing Organizational Patterns: A New Theory and Language of Organizational Design (Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2005). (See notes.)