What does Work Structuring do?
Work Structuring balances and aligns both the technical and social aspects of the whole business, recapturing simplicity. Many very small companies seem to run like clockwork; everyone understands what the company is aiming to achieve and the part they play in that. As companies grow, processes become more complex, staff can feel isolated, bureaucracy can overwhelm and the business begins to feel sluggish. Work Structuring aims to recapture the simplicity by retuning the whole organisation.
It does this by recognising that any organisation can be considered as a complex system, by identifying the attributes of a healthy system, translating them into organisational design principles and then, through use of specifically developed tools and techniques, applying them throughout the business; retuning and reshaping, sometimes radically.
Work Structuring helps companies to become significantly more effective and hence profitable by harmonising all their constituent parts so that these work together in the best way possible. It is primarily concerned with:
- Mapping the technical and social structures which comprise the organisation, including the business processes, management structures, work groups, planning and evaluation systems etc.,
- Application of the principles to align all the elements of the organisation around its essential purposes, to create integrated teams that respond quickly and efficiently to changing markets and opportunities,
- Transferring to management and staff the knowledge and skills required for successful application and further development of the Work Structuring System.
When the principles and methods are implemented together Work Structuring yields long term improvement through straightforward redesign of the whole organisational system, including processes, roles, structure, technology and support functions.
