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Hi Sir, I have a question regarding support staff in Mintzberg organization. I couldn’t understand the sentence below, why is it support staff is usually linked to adhocracy? Is there any difference between administrative adhocracy and operating adhocracy?
“In administrative adhocracies the support staff are a key component, in operating adhocracies the operating core is pivotal.”
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I really don’t know the distinction between administrative and operating adhocracies – and I can’t really believe the distinction is very important for P3.
The only structures I know are:
simple, machine bureaucracy, professional bureaucracy, divisionalisation and adhocracy.
The latter is really the opposite of a machine bureaucracy and is useful in complex, dynamic situations where you have ‘to make it up as you go along’. If you are doing that, you need help from support departments.
If you know what’s in F1 this article, I think you know enough for P3:
Sir, regardless of degree of autonomy in divisionalisation, the managers at the end are answerable to the top management (board). Am I right?
And what is simple structure? I only recall machine and professional from your notes/lectures?
Regards
Q1 Correct
Q2 Simple structure = entrepreneurial structure. Very small and young so really just the boss and the workers.
Sir, moreover, studying notes and past papers has led me to the conclusion that org. structure and or. configuration is same. That is, there are 5 structures (functional, divisional, machine, professional, adhoc). And whichever way of the 5 is chosen is basically the configuration.
Tell me if I am wrongRegards
They are similar, but not the same. For example a functional structure simply divides the organisation up into departments. However, that says nothing about the relative importance of those departments. Mintzberg’s configurations demonstrate that the relative importance and size of departments depends on the nature of the organisation.
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