Conference: Making Organization Designs Effective, New York City, April 2004

会议：使组织设计有效，纽约市，2004 年 4 月

• 批准号: 0405384
• 负责人: Roger Dunbar
• 金额: $ 5.7万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-15 至 2005-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0405384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Making; Organization; Designs; Effective

The Conference on Making Organization Designs Effective will assemble leading researchers from a variety of disciplines that have developed theories with implications for improving organizations. The focus of the conference will be on the organizational design implications of research findings. It will foster discussion of different organization design ideas that are represented by conference participants. To facilitate the conversion of abstract and research-based design ideas into practically useful ideas, the conference will be oriented around a significant real-life design problem: the redesign of a large scale organization. The conference participants will be given information about the focal organization and its issues and they will be asked to develop and present design ideas to deal with these issues. The intellectual contribution of the conference will center on the efforts made by participants to relate established research findings to one organization's specific design issues. This is an important intellectual challenge because before organization knowledge can be recognized to have value in the broader community and organization theories can gain recognition as being part of a mature intellectual discipline, the ideas that have been developed must be shown to be useful in solving practical problems. But determining usefulness involves extra-scientific criteria that are not directly considered in academic research. The intellectual challenge of the conference is to establish a bridge between organization knowledge that is based on sound academic research and organization design contributions that are considered useful and based on organizational needs. The broader impact of the conference is to extend organization research agendas to include usefulness as well as scientific criteria in their studies. In addition to its immediate practical value, the case study is intended to help participants see differences, compatibilities, and benefits in different design approaches. To achieve the broader impact, the papers and conclusions will be disseminated in a special issue of a leading journal and a more inclusive edited book presenting the conference papers and findings.

使组织设计有效的会议将汇集来自不同学科的领先研究人员，这些学科已经开发出了对改善组织有影响的理论。会议的重点将是研究结果的组织设计影响。它将促进与会者所代表的不同组织设计思想的讨论。为了促进抽象和基于研究的设计思想转化为实际有用的想法，会议将围绕一个重要的现实生活中的设计问题：大规模组织的重新设计。将向与会者提供有关协调组织及其问题的信息，并要求他们提出处理这些问题的设计构想。会议的智力贡献将集中在与会者所做的努力，将既定的研究成果与一个组织的具体设计问题。这是一个重要的智力挑战，因为在组织知识被公认为在更广泛的社区中具有价值之前，组织理论可以作为成熟的智力学科的一部分而获得认可，已经发展起来的思想必须被证明在解决实际问题方面是有用的。但确定有用性涉及学术研究中不直接考虑的科学标准。会议的智力挑战是建立一个桥梁之间的组织知识，是基于健全的学术研究和组织设计的贡献，被认为是有用的，并根据组织的需要。会议的更广泛的影响是扩大组织的研究议程，将有用性和科学标准纳入其研究。除了其直接的实用价值，案例研究旨在帮助参与者看到不同设计方法的差异，兼容性和好处。为了产生更广泛的影响，这些文件和结论将在一份主要期刊的特刊上传播，并将出版一本更全面的编辑书籍，介绍会议文件和结论。