Air Power Development Centre #25: In Pursuit Of Efficiency: Centralism and Resultant Economies and Diseconomies (2008) By Andrew Dowse
 
Sound management demands that organisations be both effective and efficient. There is a precedent to these ends though. There is no value in delivering a function efficiently if it does not meet the criteria of effectiveness. This short working paper explores a dimension of an organisational design conundrum; specifically, balancing the effectiveness of a process or function against its efficiency. GPCAPT Dowse examines when centralising or homogenising a support process or function to realise efficiency gains damages its effectiveness or, worse still, establishes arrangements that are neither effective nor efficient. There are times when the ‘one size fits all’ approach is not the appropriate one. This paper is food for thought for those engaged in designing organisational process or function, or indeed organisations themselves, to ensure they are fit for purpose. That is, that they deliver their ends effectively and efficiently as well, and in that order.
 
Soft Cover
16 Pages
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