Organizational Design: Revision history

10 June 2026

• curprev 06:0906:09, 10 June 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 2,357 bytes +2,357 cage—the tendency of rational systems to become ends in themselves, trapping humans in structures they created but no longer control. The contingency tradition, emerging in the 1960s, argued that there is no one best way to organize; design must fit context. Structural contingency theory posits that organizational structure depends on variables such as environment, technology, size, and strategy. A mechanistic structure works for stable environments and rout...