Works
- Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, xxvii and 389 pages, 1995
- Reflections: sociotechnical systems design and organization change, Journal of Change Management 19(2), 67 to 85, 2019
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Designing team-based organizations for knowledge work
Ideas
Team-based organization design. An effective team-based organization needs more than the formation of teams: the organization around the teams must be redesigned, through a five-step process for designs that empower teams in knowledge work. Caveat: Built from research and consulting with client firms; Devine and colleagues (1999) found that most organizations using teams did not support them with team-level feedback or pay, the gap the book addresses.