# Changing Organizations: Designing for People and Purpose

Professor Jay W. Lorsch uses selected organizational examples to illustrate the contingency theory of management. Explains that the type of structure that an organization uses depends upon the tasks to be accomplished, which in turn reflects the work styles and values of the people doing the jobs

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1978
- Runtime: 26 min
- By: Lorsch, Jay William, Hobel-Leiterman Productions, Ontario Educational Communications Authority
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/changingorganizationsdesigningforpeopleandpurpose)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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