Organisational Design: Delayering To Promote Optimisation Of Structure
Presentation at TNB 1st Human Resource Conference

Released by: MIM
Date: : 16 November 2007

Dr Wilson Tay, CEO of MIM presented a talk on "Organisational Design: Delayering To Promote Optimisation Of Structure" at the 1st Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) Human Resource Conference for TNB's human resource personnel recently at Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam on 14 & 15 November 2007.

"In a fast changing and globalised environment, what was good for yesterday may not be relevant for today. So we must respond, and it is like building an airplane in the air," remarked Dr Wilson in his presentation to the more than 250 attendees at the conference.

In the one-hour session, he shared with the delegates his experience in organisational design with a large global mining company and how a good organisation design can help make organisations more effective and responsive. Drawing on models of Requisite Organisation from Dr. Elliot Jaques, the McKinsey 7S Model as well as the Starfish and Spider Model from Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom for de-layering and re-structuring, he shared with the delegates, the different types of organisation structures that can be adopted, the symptoms of overlayering and the benefits of delayering.

"Organisational structures that support mutual trust are good for efficiency, good for people, good for nations. It is the ones that induce and support mutual suspicion and mistrust that are nothing short of a social or economic curse."
-Elliott Jaques