The Future of Organizational Design: A Forecasting Study

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Yıldız, Müge Leyla

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Forecasting (future studies in business) is gaining importance worldwide. As the world becomes increasingly global, technological developments have led to increasing uncertainty day by day. Technology, especially information technology, is changing business and its environment. Managers need to consider future possibilities for making decisions in a competitive environment. The main purpose of this study is to anticipate the future of organizational design based on expert predictions about changes in the dimensions of organizational design over the next decade. Nowadays, the most important factor to influence organizational design is technology, so this study tries to forecast the future of organizational design and taking the influence of information technology into consideration. The future of organizational design over the next ten decade is analyzed in terms of complexity, centralization and formalization. In this study, the Delphi method is used to analyze the experts' opinion about the future. When formulating the Delphi statements, preliminary study's results was used and also worked as a team with six academics. The sample of experts used in the study consisted of consultants working for a world-leading technology and management consultancy company operating out of Turkey. This selection was made because it was the neccessary to take the effects of information technology on organization. As a result, an organization design is forecasted that differs from what is found in studies forecasting that innovation and human resources as a strategic toll will increase in importance. In contrast to what was thought, it is forecasted that in the future organization design will be more centralized with higher degrees of formalization. Furthermore, it is forecast that the use of similar information technology infrastructures (SAP, ORACLE etc.) brings companies many advantages, such as ease of communication, integration etc. and that companies, regardless of sector, are in many ways tending towards isomorphism.

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Organization design, Centralization, Formalization, Horizontal differentiation, Vertical differentiation, İnformation technology systems, Delphi method, Globalization, Forecasting

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http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/issue/view/63
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58352

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ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi

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Department of Economics, Article

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M. L. Yıldız, “The Future of Organizational Design: A Forecasting Study,” ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 259–282, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/issue/view/63.