Organisational Behaviour and Design : Implications for Management

This book focuses on conceptual frameworks, debates, tools and developments in the fields of organizational behaviour and organizational design. It analyses the concepts related to organizational behaviour such as leadership, organizational climate, and motivation, at one side, and focuses on the general framework for organizational design in detail in all its components (strategy, environment, processes, people, leadership, information and knowledge system etc.), at the other side. The analysis of the psychological factors affecting organizational design also drives to think of possible different configurations of the main components of organizational structure and design that may be a good fit/alignment between behaviour and design. In the Industry 4.0 era, human resources and personal factors are increasingly central and strategic therefore it is important to understand how psychological factors affect organizational design. It provides a practical guidance on this area of study for developing and implementing the desired organizational architecture. Hence, it takes a managerial perspective to identify practices and behaviour resulting in meaningful and satisfying organizational experience vis-à-vis the evolving nature of structures and contexts.

The book broadens readers’ understanding of the role of organizational behavior and design issues in organizational performance while focusing on design changes to remedy organization’s core problems. Given these premises, it will be of interest to scholars and professionals in the field of organizational behaviour, job design and job crafting, strategic management and studies at large who can contribute to organizations’ evolution towards more harmonious organizational design configurations.

Alessandra Ricciardelli, holds a PhD in Economics and Management of Natural Resources from LUM University “G. Degennaro” and earned a Master of Science with honors in Development Studies (focused on Russian and Eastern European countries) from the University of Oxford.

She is currently a researcher in Business Organization at the Department of Public Health at the University of Naples “Federico II.” She served as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Connection Science, under the supervision of Alex Pentland. From 2019 to 2020, she was a Management researcher at the National School of Administration, under the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

She is also a consultant for Ernst and Young in the advisory and policy advice sector.

Her research interests include, but are not limited to, organizational design, innovation, organizational behavior, change management, organizational welfare, public management, smart cities and communities, and sustainable development of communities and territories, in which she has published articles and books.

Marco Valeri is Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome (Italy). He is a Lecturer in Applied Organizational Behaviour, Xenophon College, London (UK). He is Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management, School of Hospitality, Tourism and Events, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya 47500 (Malaysia). He is Associate Researcher in Strategy, Magellan Research Center, School of Management, Iaelyon Business School, Jean Monet University, Lyon (France). He is Honorary Associate Professor, University of Pannonia (Hungary). His teaching and consultancy fields include strategic management, leadership development, cross-cultural management, international hospitality management. His research areas include strategy implementation, knowledge management, family business, crisis management, information technology, network analysis. He chaired/co-chaired and served on numerous PhD dissertation and master thesis committees. He has a long and extensive international academic experience and has taken visiting positions in several universities. He is a member of several Editorial Boards of international journals, a reviewer and editor of several handbooks on entrepreneurship, organization science, tourism, and hospitality management (Springer and Emerald).