What We Do
Work Structuring Limited (WSL) was founded by its Chairman, Christian
Schumacher, in 1986. Comprising a small group of dedicated practitioners WSL offers its clients a high quality consultancy and training service in "whole systems" organisational redesign.
The Work Structuring principles and methodologies have been adopted by
well-established organisations from many sectors and countries. Clients
include major industrial multi-national companies, public sector bodies
including central and local government departments, hospitals and schools and smaller private sector organisations, ranging from architectural practices to zoos.

Application of the Work Structuring principles and techniques enables
organisations and institutions to achieve significant improvements in
performance, cost reductions and excellence in quality of service and value for money. Simultaneously, it achieves high employee job satisfaction, motivation and a keener sense of corporate social responsibility. 

These benefits stem from the fact that Work Structuring is a "whole systems" and holistic approach to organisational redesign. As such it differs fundamentally from "component-level" interventions which seek to make improvements by tackling one or other components of an organisation in isolation from the rest.

These points are illustrated by our Case Studies.
Work Structuring Principles
1. Work should be organised around the Basic Transformations in the process
to form Whole Tasks.
2. The basic organisational unit should be the Primary Workgroup (of four to
twenty people)
3. Each workgroup should have a designated leader.
4. Each workgroup should, as far as possible, plan and organise its own
work.
5. Each workgroup should be able fully to evaluate its performance against
agreed standards of excellence.
6. Jobs should be designed so that workgroup members can personally plan, do and evaluate at least one Transformation in the process.
7. Personal and structural conditions to encourage teamworking throughout
the organisation should be established.
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