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Jay R. Galbraith Quotes

1939–2014 United States

Jay R. Galbraith (Feb. 26, 1939 - April 8, 2014) was an American organizational theorist, consultant and Professor at the International Institute for Management Development, known for his work on strategy and organization design.

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There is no one best way to organize... Any way of organizing is not equally effective.

If management can identify the negatives of its preferred option, the other policies around the star model can be designed to counter the negatives while achieving the positives.

Jay R. Galbraith (2002)

The greater the task uncertainty, the greater the amount of information that must be processed among decision makers during task execution in order to achieve a given level of performance.

Organization design is conceived to be a decision process to bring about a coherence between the goals or purposes for which the organization exists, the patterns of division of labor and interunit coordination and the people who will do the work.

Jay R. Galbraith (1977)

Organizations make two responses to deal with the behavior control problem. The first change involves the substitution of craft or professional training of the work force for the detailed centralized programming of the work processes.

The empirical research of the last fifteen years on the structure of large organizations seems to confirm the hypothesis of Herbert Simon that human cognitive limits are a basic limiting factor in determining organization structures .

[Task uncertainty is] the difference between the amount of information required to perform the task and the amount of information already possessed by the organisation.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jay R. Galbraith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.