What is Requisite Organization? The Elevator Speech

By Michelle Malay Carter on October 13, 2009 

I work for PeopleFit, a management consulting firm that specializes in: Organizational engineering, talent assessment,?and designing managerial leadership systems rooted in Elliott Jaques’ meta-model, Requisite Organization. What a marketing nightmare – creating demand for services that most executives have never conceived of! Let’s Learn from Other Professions! While most professions and industries have standards of […]

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Role Analysis, Time Span of Discretion, and Requisite Work Levels

By Michelle Malay Carter on February 26, 2009 

Universal Measures and Understanding Properties of Work?Allows for Informed Organizational Design I’ve often said that understanding work levels allows us to do organizational engineering because we can use our knowledge to make predictions and design accordingly.? Just like we can predict when H2O will change to ice or steam as we raise or lower the […]

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Who Is To Blame for Low Employee Engagement? Executive Leadership

By Michelle Malay Carter on February 3, 2009 

If a wooden bridge collapsed under the weight of a truck, you wouldn’t blame the wood.? You wouldn’t blame the truck.? You would blame the engineer. Organizational Engineering – An Executive Leadership Level Accountability Who is engineering our organizations these days, and upon what scientific principles are they basing their designs?? We have yet to […]

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Faulty Organization Design or Worse Yet, Design by Default – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 30, 2009 

I worked with an engineering firm this week doing job analysis and talent assessment work.? Whenever this firm hires degreed engineers, some straight from college, some with experience, they still put them through two years of internal training to learn their specific industry before they can work independently within the organization. A Field in Need […]

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How Does Requisite Organization Integrate with Your Model?

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 11, 2009 

I taught a public course, Introduction to Requisite Organization, last week.? Each time I teach this course, people ask me – How does this apply to X? (insert your favorite model)? My standard answer is:? Requisite Organization will inform your model.? How Can I Make This Bold Assertion? Because the two theory pieces which form […]

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Requisite Weekend Transformation? How Are You Framing Your Organizational Issues?

By Michelle Malay Carter on November 12, 2008 

Folklore has it that Elliott Jaques, the author of the meta model, Requisite Organization, used to say you could transform an organization over the weekend by restructuring an organization to align with the requisite model. Requisite Organization Design Principles That means, among other things,?re-aligning as necessary to meet the three requisite organization design criteria. Conceptually […]

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Organizational Structure – What If…

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 18, 2008 

Jack Fallow had this to say about my lamentation on organizational structural failures:? Yes it is a problem that we under-engineer work environments and structures. Typically, the engineer, first decides that weight bearing strength of 1000lbs is necessary, then adds 50% for security. Next, they choose the best material to carry the strain. Then, they […]

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Structural Failures within Organizations – Close is Not Good Enough

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 17, 2008 

Steve Roesler throws out the concept of applied management in his latest post?on employee survey research.? I couldn’t agree more that we need more applied management within organizations. And I would ask, just what are we applying? Is Close Good Enough? Engineers take natural laws and science-based knowledge and use this inform to inform their […]

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Three Organization Design Principles – Why Engagement Sits at about 20 Percent

By Michelle Malay Carter on May 28, 2008 

Organizational Engineering At PeopleFit, we consider ourselves organizational engineers.? Meaning, we use scientific knowledge and natural laws in order to design and implement structures, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria – i.e. we design requisite leadership systems which produce work enabling organizations rooted in trust, fairness, and accountability. It’s […]

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