Meaning of Design Action : Shift of the Present/Given

Created : 2004-12-27 Updated: 2005-04-22

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Most generally, the meaning of design is shifting the present/given.
In particular, organization design is the action of planning/causing/achieving organization shift.

The objective of organization shift is reaching an organizational 'well-being' in some sense.
We may consider a dialectic structure at the process of 'organization design' :


Organizational inconvenience becomes evident
→ Movement for gaining convenience (activation of organizational constituents)
→ Reach a convenience - activation of organizational constituents calm down.

Here "activation of organizational constituents" takes form of 'diversity of individuals'. — The shift of the organization(A) to the organization(B) is :


There (A) takes place an organizational activation in the form that diversity of individuals becomes evident/activated,
activation proceeds, and
the organization enters a new stage (B).