Creating Interview Guides for the Minimalist Organizational Design Project
Pyylampi, Monique (2019)
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201904124946
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One must evolve or drown in the business world of today. The environment has become increasingly complex and capricious. Organizations that want to survive must learn how to adapt to a changing world. Today’s organization requires a structure that is much more like a living organism, adapting to changes rapidly and fluidly.
MODe CC stands for Minimalist Organizational Design Co-Creation. The MODe Project aims to research minimalist organizational design and the factors necessary for it to take root, as well as to develop tools and products through additional projects. In addition, it strives to support on a practical level minimalist organizational design in Finnish companies that are either currently international or have the potential to internationalize. The purpose of this thesis is to support the MODe Project’s Master Class workshops by creating materials that they will use to collect and analyze data about the current situation, unique challenges, and specific goals of participant companies during their initial evaluation.
This thesis is product-oriented, including a theoretical framework, followed by an empirical application and process description. Through a traditional literature-based review, this paper delves into two key concepts – minimalist organizational design and qualitative interview methodology. The literature identifies the core elements of minimalist organizational design and self-managing organizations, as well as qualitative interview methodology, defining it and ascertaining the requirements for creating a well-structured interview. In addition to determining the essentials of a quality interview, the analysis includes how to consider different audiences, in this case the management and employees of organizations aiming to self-manage. Based on these findings, the interview guide’s design process is described and justified.
The resulting interview guides provide interviewers with contextual goals, questions, and enough instruction to guide and produce consistent interview results that are comparable across companies. Interview guide theme headings include Introduction, Right People (Mastery), Systems and Structures, Agility, Autonomy and Motivation, Authenticity, Decision-making, Goals, and Closing.
MODe CC stands for Minimalist Organizational Design Co-Creation. The MODe Project aims to research minimalist organizational design and the factors necessary for it to take root, as well as to develop tools and products through additional projects. In addition, it strives to support on a practical level minimalist organizational design in Finnish companies that are either currently international or have the potential to internationalize. The purpose of this thesis is to support the MODe Project’s Master Class workshops by creating materials that they will use to collect and analyze data about the current situation, unique challenges, and specific goals of participant companies during their initial evaluation.
This thesis is product-oriented, including a theoretical framework, followed by an empirical application and process description. Through a traditional literature-based review, this paper delves into two key concepts – minimalist organizational design and qualitative interview methodology. The literature identifies the core elements of minimalist organizational design and self-managing organizations, as well as qualitative interview methodology, defining it and ascertaining the requirements for creating a well-structured interview. In addition to determining the essentials of a quality interview, the analysis includes how to consider different audiences, in this case the management and employees of organizations aiming to self-manage. Based on these findings, the interview guide’s design process is described and justified.
The resulting interview guides provide interviewers with contextual goals, questions, and enough instruction to guide and produce consistent interview results that are comparable across companies. Interview guide theme headings include Introduction, Right People (Mastery), Systems and Structures, Agility, Autonomy and Motivation, Authenticity, Decision-making, Goals, and Closing.