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Henry Mintzberg OC OQ FRSC is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal , Quebec , Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968.
In the late 1960s Henry Mintzberg, a graduate student at MIT, carefully studied the activities of five executives. On the basis of his observations, Mintzberg arrived at three categories that subsume managerial roles: interpersonal roles, decisional roles, and informational roles. [47]
In 1998, Mintzberg developed these five types of management strategy into 10 "schools of thought" and grouped them into three categories. The first group is normative. It consists of the schools of informal design and conception, the formal planning, and analytical positioning.
Geoffrey P. Chamberlain's theory of strategy [1] was first published in 2010. The theory draws on the work of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., [2] Kenneth R. Andrews, [3] Henry Mintzberg [4] and James Brian Quinn [5] but is more specific and attempts to cover the main areas they did not address.
For Henry Mintzberg, an adhocracy is a complex and dynamic organizational form. [6] It is different from bureaucracy; like Toffler, Mintzberg considers bureaucracy a thing of the past, and adhocracy one of the future. [7] When done well, adhocracy can be very good at problem solving and innovation [7] and thrive in diverse environments. [6]
Henry Mintzberg wrote in 1994 that strategic thinking is more about synthesis (i.e., "connecting the dots") than analysis (i.e., "finding the dots"). It is about "capturing what the manager learns from all sources (both the soft insights from his or her personal experiences and the experiences of others throughout the organization and the hard ...
Diagram, proposed by Henry Mintzberg, showing the main parts of organisation, including technostructure. Technostructure is the group of technicians, analysts within an organisation (enterprise, administrative body) with considerable influence and control on its economy.
Henry C. Metcalf - the science of administration (1920s) Henry Metcalfe - the science of administration (1880s) Gerald Midgley; Danny Miller - economist; Merton Miller - Modigliani–Miller theorem and corporate finance (1970s) Henry Mintzberg (born 1939) - organizational architecture, strategic management (1970s–2000s)