Interdependence & Organization Design
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چکیده
If organizations are multi-agent systems with goals, there must exist a mapping from organizational level goals to agent level tasks. Such a mapping, at least when explicitly recognized (even if not intentionally crafted) is what we think of typically as division of labor. Because the results of the efforts so divided must be integrated back, the division of labor results in interdependence between the agents performing the tasks contributing to the overall goal of the organization.
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