The MAPS Route to Better Organization Design

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Schein E. H. , Organization Development (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1969).

Lawrence P. R. Lorsch J. W. , Organization and Environment (Homewood: Irwin-Dorsey, 1967); Lorsch J. W. Lawrence P. R. (eds.), Studies in Organization Design (Homewood: Irwin-Dorsey, 1970).

Duncan R. B. , “The Implementation of Different Decision-Making Structures in Adapting to Environmental Uncertainty: An Expansion of Contingency Theories of Organizations,” Proceedings of the Academy of Management (August 1972), pp. 39–47.

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Ackoff R. Emery E. , On Purposeful Systems (Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1972).

For a fuller treatment of purposefulness, see McKelvey W.W. , “Purposefulness in Organizations,” Chapter 1 of a book by the same author, Organization Science (U.C.L.A., Graduate School of Management, Organization Studies Center, 1973).

Leavitt H. J. , “Applied Organizational Change in Industry: Structural, Technological, and Humanistic Approaches,” in March J. G. (ed.), Handbook of Organizations (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965), pp. 1144–1170.

Watson G. , Social Psychology (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966).

Bucklow M. , “A New Role for the Work Group,” Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 11 (1966), pp. 59–78.

Bennis W. G. , Organization Development: Its Nature, Origins and Prospects (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1969).

Lippitt R. L. , Organization Renewal (New York: Appleton-Century-Crafts, 1969), p. 1.

Harmon H. H. , Modern Factor Analysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967).

This example is taken from Kilmann R. H. , “The MAPS Method: Designing an Effective Organic-Adaptive Organization” Personnel (May-June, 1974).

This example is taken from McKelvey W. W. Kilmann R. H. , “Participative Multivariate Differentiation Toward Purposefulness,” Proceedings of the Academy of Management (August 1973).

The rationale and calculation of this coefficient is described in McKelvey W. W. Kilmann R. H. , op. cit., 1973.