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Presenter: Marianne Livijn, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus U.
Presenter: Morten Kusk Fogsgaard, Aalborg U.
Presenter: Borge Obel, Aarhus U., Department of Management
Facilitator: Jette Lindhard, UKON
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| The purpose of this workshop is to discuss how we can design dynamic organizations for the future that promote internal health and well-being. In response to increasingly complex business environments, new organizational forms are emerging that are more dynamic and less hierarchical than traditional forms. While these new organizations may be more adaptive, they also entail challenges related to the organization’s internal health and well-being of employees, as there is a risk that the more loosely defined hierarchies will lead to internal confusion, inefficiency and work-related stress. We will base the discussion on two overall perspectives to organizational design: design and designing. The former approach represents organizational design as a static macro equilibrating activity, whereas the latter consider design an ongoing activity of adapting to specific circumstances in different parts of the organization. The two approaches to organizational design are often presented as contrasts. In this workshop, we invite participants to discuss the possible synergies in combining the two approaches in order to strengthen internal health and well-being in the organization. This raises a number of essential questions; which implications for internal health and well-being does the two approaches to organizational design entail? Is there a way to bridge the two perspectives of organizational design? How do we strike a balance between too “strong” and too “loose” a design? The workshop will address these questions though an interactive and participative approach aimed at developing both theory and practical intervention methods. |
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