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The organizational configurations framework of Mintzberg is a model that describes six valid organizational configurations (originally only five; the sixth one was added later): [8] Simple structure, characteristic of entrepreneurial organization; Machine bureaucracy; Professional bureaucracy; Diversified form; Adhocracy, or innovative organization
Mintzberg considers seven main configurations of organizational structure: [46] Entrepreneurial organization (strategic apex, direct supervision dominate) Machine organization (technostructure, standardization of work processes dominate) Professional organization (operating core, standardization of skills dominate)
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.
Strategy as perspective – executing strategy based on a "theory of the business" or natural extension of the mindset or ideological perspective of the organization. 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.
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]
They also can reveal relationships between departments, products, supply chains, and more within an organization that might not otherwise be apparent. Business strategists, consultants, and academics use organigraphs. Around the year 2000, Henry Mintzberg and Ludo Van der Heyden conceived the organigraph. [1]
After 10 years at Grayscale, Michael Sonnenshein will be replaced by Peter Mintzberg, global head of strategy for asset and wealth management at Goldman Sachs, according to a statement issued ...
Due to the vast potentially different combination of the employees’ formal hierarchical and informal community participation, each organization is therefore a unique phenotype along a spectrum between a pure hierarchy and a pure community (flat) organizational structure." Lim, M., G. Griffiths, and S. Sambrook. (2010).