Strategies for managing the teamworking agenda: Developing a methodology for team-based organisation ☆

Abstract This paper reports the development of a vision driven organisation design methodology, strategic designs for teamworking (SDT), for use by senior managers in their role as organisational architects and engineers. The methodology is based upon models of teamworking. These were developed from existing theory and empirical research. SDT enables managers to design or redesign a requisite organisational form at both a conceptual and detailed level, with the aim of designing and implementing a requisite organisation to contribute to the delivery of strategic objectives.

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