Advanced Dynamics

Requisite Organisation

A sustainably successful organisation needs to be soundly structured, with the right people doing the right work at every level.

In our work with clients it is common to find that role ambiguity, role conflict, and confusion between roles are causing stress, anxiety and ineffectiveness. In such situations it is difficult for people to work to their potential because what is ‘requisite’ for effective and satisfying work is not present in that work environment or in that social system.

Requisite Organisation had its roots in the work of Elliott Jaques, who collaborated with Wilfred Brown at Glacier Metals to develop a scientific approach to management to address these sorts of challenges and improve organisational effectiveness. 

Jaques then developed these concepts further in his work with Dr Ian Macdonald and Dr Gillian Stamp at the Brunel Institute for Organisational and Social Studies. In the 1980’s the approach became known as ‘stratified systems theory’.  After some revision, developments and contributions, the later iterations are now known as ‘Requisite Organisation’.

At Advanced Dynamics we use Requisite Organisation principles to help our clients to:

• review their organisational structure
• set up clearly demarcated levels of authority and accountability
• clearly understand the complexity of work required at different levels of an organisation and structure it accordingly
• match capabilities of staff to the right roles
• train their managers to think clearly about the work of their roles
• set appropriate boundaries and role relationships to allow for sufficient discretion

Through these and similar processes our clients have achieved greatly increased effectiveness as well as improving the quality of work life of their employees.