Making Remote Work #16 – Borge Obel

Børge Obel is a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Organizational Architecture, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, and professor at EIASM, Brussels. He teaches graduate courses in organizational design and digital transformation.Børge holds a Ph.D. and a Dr. Oecon. from Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests fall within strategy, management, and organizational design. Børge is the lead expert in EcoMerc on Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design.Børge Obel has published several books including Organizational Design: A Step-By-Step Approach, Cambridge University (jointly with Richard M. Burton and Geraldine DeSanctis), second edition 2011, and the third edition with Richard M. Burton and Dorthe Håkonsson. He has published numerous academic papers including papers in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, ASQ and Management Science. He was the founding editor of Journal of Organization Design. He has served as an advisor to the Danish Government on e-infrastructure. He also serves on a number of company boards.- TIMESTAMPS -00:00:00 – Podcast Start00:01:07 – Borge Obel - Introduction00:05:00 – Virtual vs Distributed vs Remote Work00:11:10 – Is remote work here to stay?00:14:40 – Organizational design for remote work00:18:28 – Remote work and its effect on team coherence00:21:35 – Opportunism and cheating when working remotely00:24:35 – Are matrix or functional organizations suitable for remote work?00:28:18 – Designing better remote organizations with the use of data00:34:20 – Designing incentives for remote organizations 00:36:40 – Power and promotions when remote: “the virtual rat race”00:39:57 – Insights on all-remote companies from an organizational design perspective00:46:13 – Organizational design advice for companies moving or starting remote 00:49:38 – Future organizational design research areas that are driven by the Covid-19 pandemic 00:55:24 – Final thoughts on remote workMAKING REMOTE WORK - is a limited series led by the ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN COMMUNITY and hosted by SKILLS FOR MARS. It is a public service video-podcast in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host 20+ researchers and practitioners in the field of distributed work. They will share their insights and knowledge to support companies and employees who are making this transition.If you are interested in the Future of Work - consider subscribing to Skills for Mars: https://bit.ly/3cA2UF1Support the Skills for Mars podcast?Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars- Facebook @skillsformars- Instagram @skillsformars- Twitter @skillsformars

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