The fundamental challenge in organizational design is managing the tension between division of labor and integration of efforts. People often make the mistake of emphasizing the former at the expense of the latter. They may devise an organizational structure that contains all the units required to perform desired tasks, but fails to provide the information links between units and the motivational mechanisms necessary for effective value capture. In organizational design scholarship, this lopsided view has been referred to as “partition focus”.
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