Role grouping experiments: a new method for studying organization re-design decisions
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| Název: | Role grouping experiments: a new method for studying organization re-design decisions |
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| Autoři: | Nicolay Worren, Federico Cammelli |
| Přispěvatelé: | Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Organization Design |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025. |
| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
| Témata: | Organization design, Role grouping, Interdependencies, Clustering, Task complexity, 46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4608 Human-Centred Computing |
| Popis: | We developed an experimental method to investigate organization design and grouping decisions more specifically. We demonstrate the method in a study with 285 participants. The participants were asked to group a set of nine roles into units using card-sorting. The role descriptions indicated that there were interdependencies between some of the roles. Participants’ grouping decisions were quantified and compared against an algorithmic solution that minimized coordination costs. It was found that a relatively small difference in task complexity between groups greatly affected participants’ performance. We discuss how the method can be extended to study a range of variables related to decision-making about organization design. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Popis souboru: | application/pdf; text/xml; application/application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 2245-408X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s41469-025-00189-1 |
| DOI: | 10.3929/ethz-b-000736060 |
| Přístupová URL adresa: | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/388698 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41469-025-00189-1 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/736060 |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3f5cf93301456282567f6a5625e6f6aa |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | We developed an experimental method to investigate organization design and grouping decisions more specifically. We demonstrate the method in a study with 285 participants. The participants were asked to group a set of nine roles into units using card-sorting. The role descriptions indicated that there were interdependencies between some of the roles. Participants’ grouping decisions were quantified and compared against an algorithmic solution that minimized coordination costs. It was found that a relatively small difference in task complexity between groups greatly affected participants’ performance. We discuss how the method can be extended to study a range of variables related to decision-making about organization design. |
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| ISSN: | 2245408X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s41469-025-00189-1 |