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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.
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.
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]
The concept builds on the Group Roles model developed by Benne & Sheats in 1948, [22] taking a short-cut route to describing preferences when guiding others. Similarly, the Roles Model follows the Mintzberg 10 management positions [23] – drawing in the most relevant elements when considering the mentoring relationship in detail.
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 ...
In 1988, Henry Mintzberg described the many different definitions and perspectives on strategy reflected in both academic research and in practice. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] He examined the strategic process and concluded it was much more fluid and unpredictable than people had thought.
Examples of such organisation can be advertising agency or firm that develops the prototypes of products. [47] Administrative adhocracy has teams solving problems for the organization itself. [47] As an example of such organization Mintzberg gives NASA when it worked on Apollo program. [47]