Understanding and Designing Military Organizations for a Complex Dynamic Environment

摘要

The intent of this paper is to apply two distinct theoretical frameworks from organizational science in an analysis of organizational design as it relates to the Department of Defense (DoD). The first perspective of organizational design will be from a traditional, more rational, mechanistic approach and the second will be from complexity theory. The two theories will be used to describe the external environment and how it relates to DoD organizations, current DoD organizational structures, and transformational concepts related to organizational design. The context of this paper is based on the concept of global environmental conditions changing due to a transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age and will be the foundation for demonstrating transformation necessity within the DoD.