Workbook
The Organizational Design Workbook
Restructuring a Team Without Destroying the Trust That Made It Work
The org chart is easy. What it costs people inside—that's what matters.
For the leader, HR business partner, or organizational development professional responsible for restructuring a team who wants a guide that takes the human trust dimension as seriously as the functional design rationale.
The Name It First Experience
The new org chart is easy. What it costs the people inside it is not. The Organizational Design Workbook gives leaders a framework for the human dimension of restructuring — before the announcement. You will inventory trust assets and informal networks. You will name relational costs explicitly. You will produce a signed charter that makes your leadership values and human commitments part of the design record. The output is not an announcement deck. It is The Organizational Design Workbook Charter.
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Sample questions
- What informal networks or trust assets in your current structure are most at risk in a redesign?
- How do you weigh functional logic against the relational costs of a structural change?
- What do you owe the people whose work lives you're changing — and how do you hold that explicitly in the design process?
Research basis
Galbraith (2002) Designing Organizations applied to structural design principles / Edmondson (2018) The Fearless Organization applied to psychological safety through organizational change / Maslach Burnout Inventory applied to change-related stress and trust depletion / Rousseau (1995) psychological contract theory applied to restructuring-as-contract-violation / Kotter Leading Change applied to coalition building through organizational design / Team Topologies (Skelton & Pais) applied to team structure and cognitive load in redesign contexts.
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