Warning: flexibility can damage your organizational health!

Abstract

Notes that achieving flexibility for organizations is one of the key issues of management efforts. However, making organizations more flexible may reduce the organizations’ ability to survive unless sustainable flexibility is introduced. Sustainable flexibility tries to find a balance between softness and structuredness, diversity and coherence, and reserves and tight fit. Shows how these three dimensions are characterized and how sustainable flexibility can be reached in organizations.

Citation

Mayrhofer, W. (1997), "Warning: flexibility can damage your organizational health!", Employee Relations, Vol. 19 No. 6, pp. 519-534. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425459710193081