Abstract
Organizational design as symbolic process. This article presents the essential lines of a new perspective for the comprehension, explanation and intervention in organizational design. It arises as an alternative answer to the traditional vision of the organizational design as architecture, abounding in its conception as a symbolic ongoing process. The empirical work developed involves an approach, from a representational point of view, to those organizational design parameters deemed more necessary for the satisfaction of the different areas of organizational effectiveness. The results shows the need of designs articulated around the integrated and coordinated action of the different organizational components, and to the conditions that maximize flexibility. The utility of the present work is based on making visible the causal undelying beliefs and the symbolic substract, which modulate the final results of the organizational design processes.
