From design to improvisation: reinterpreting organizational design

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcanti, Bianor Scelza
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6762
• topic: organizational design; structural functionalism; interpretivism; improvisation; public sector policies.; modelagem organizacional; funcionalismo estrutura

This paper analyzes conceptual developments related to organizational design and reflects on their consequences for the study of organizational change in the public sector. As a result of this journey, emerges the relevance of the interpretative approaches for organizational design, specifically the contribution of Karl Weick. In its first part, the paper bridges the gap between organizational theory and organizational design practices. Next it summarizes the basic conceptual framework, explaining its paradigmatic roots in the systemic-contingency approach of structural functionalism. The third part of the paper presents the interpretative perspective of organizational design, highlighting Weick¿s contribution. Finally, it makes some inferences regarding organizational design in the Brazilian public sector and raises a few issues that might become object of research in new studies.