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To support the organising of work in a responsible, fair and healthy manner in which people are well led and free to exercise their capabilities.
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Learn to design and manage effective organizations using an elegant, practical, science-based, trust-inducing approach based on accountability, levels of work complexity and human capability
The program includes permanent access to on-line e-learning modules, videos, and readings. Participants learn from each other and from the Society's Senior Fellows, all experienced senior practitioners, who moderate the on-line forums and teleconferences
Professional development courses
Introduction to work levels-based organization design and management
This course provides an introduction to what we've termed Organization design and management – sometimes called Requisite Organization, Stratified Systems or The Work Levels Approach
Read details $99.00 USD
Designing the Requisite Organization
This on-line course is based on about eight hours work and touches on items 3, 5 & 6 that take the name that was part of the Society's World Conference, Designing the Smarter Organization, 2014, at the IBM Palisades Conference Centre, New York City.
Read Details $79.00 USD
Requisite Leadership Framework
This online course is based on about eight hours work and touches on items 3, 5 & 6 that take the name that was part of the Society's World Conference, Designing the Smarter Organization, 2014, at the IBM Palisades Conference Centre, New York City.
Read details $75.00 USD
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Featured resources
Organization Design & Levels of Work & Human Capability
Incredibly, the first book in the GO Society Reading Series in Organization Design, has been adopted into the management curriculum of corporate universities within a month of the July 2007 launch!
Requisite Organization Annotated Bibliography
This Sixth Edition gathers in one place more than 50 years of studies on requisite organization theory and application. The wildest set of keywords have been used to tag the 250 entries and bibliographies. It includes over 2,800 research studies directly on the theory and over 2,200 related studies.
** Please note that you must be a registered user of the site and logged in to your account in order to download either the book or the bibliography.**
Featured book
This 2018 Second Edition , now expanded and fully illustrated is a comprehensive resource on Requisite Organization recommended to consultants, managers, educators and for use by all RO project participants.
It features continuous Senior Talent pool development, and experiences from 25 years of implementing RO and resource material including competency assessment and work assignment documentation linking tasks to the organization's strategic goals. The 2007 First Edition remains a good shorter introduction to basic RO concepts.
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Kenneth Craddock
M.A., M.P.A.
GO Society Senior Fellow and Editorial Board GO Society Journal of Organization Design Advisor
The Society celebrates the lifetime achievement award presented to Kenneth Craddock for his contribution to organization design and use of requisite organization.