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Is Organizational Design a Human-Centered Design Practice?

Part of: Design Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Jan Michel Kurt Auernhammer  and
Larry Leifer

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In recent years design has had a renaissance in business and management research and practice. Several authors have discussed if management is a design practice and how far design ought to go to design behaviors. This article discusses, evaluates and explores organizational design as a human-centered design practice. Relevant theoretical concepts of organizational theory, design approaches and practices are discussed to evaluate gaps in management practices and potential opportunities for design practice. The study collected and analyzed data from two organizations. The researched revealed several propositions, which provide insights of the usefulness, appropriateness and value of a human-centered design practice to organizational design.

Keywords

Organizational DesignHuman-centered DesignDesign practiceDesign managementOrganizational processes
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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 1205 - 1214
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