Adhocracy

Word ADHOCRACY
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /adˈhɒkɹəsi/

Definitions and meanings of "Adhocracy"

What do we mean by adhocracy?

(organizational theory) An organizational system designed to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the moment rather than excessively bureaucratic.

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The word "adhocracy" in example sentences

Bureaucracy gets pushed aside by so-called "adhocracy," executive power/one-man shows flourish, with institutional checks and balances flouted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In that alone, she says that the UN under Ban's leadership has seen "decline over a broad scale - from small things to more important" … "no more any congruity between responsibility and authority" … and calls today's UN an "adhocracy" in which "disintegrated and ill thought through ❋ Unknown (2010)

Western leaders, with some Arab leaders involved as well, had cobbled together a new adhocracy to counter, if not remove, a notorious monster attacking his people and threatening to send the "Arab spring" back into bloody winter. ❋ William Bradley (2011)

This, then, is the focus, as it were, of Obama's nascent doctrine, and the emerging international adhocracy on Libya, a blend of morality and pragmatism. ❋ William Bradley (2011)

It was an adhocracy, as I've called it, but no single entity to ensure that U.S. dollars are well spent to help the Iraqis get on their feet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The future of government is to provide tools for empowerment, not to sit back and hope that laissez-faire adhocracy will suffice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The NWG was an adhocracy of intensely creative, sleep-deprived, idiosyncratic, well-meaning computer geniuses. ❋ Katie Hafner (2001)

Moreover, conditions in adhocracy can be so complex and can change so rapidly that there tends to be an insatiable appetite for strategic analysis, according to Langley 1986, who summarized her findings on the three forms of organization as follows: ❋ HENRY MINTZBERG (1994)

In her doctoral dissertation, Langley (1986) looked carefully at the roles of planning as well as analysis in three organizations—one professional (a hospital), one machine, and one adhocracy. ❋ HENRY MINTZBERG (1994)

Finally, in an adhocracy, the wide participation of individuals in decisions and the ambiguity surrounding formal authority may generate even greater uses of formal analysis for communication purposes especially positioning and direct persuasion. ❋ HENRY MINTZBERG (1994)

Strategy formation is a most complex and nontraditional process in adhocracy, taking on especially shades of the grass roots model discussed earlier. ❋ HENRY MINTZBERG (1994)

Thus, when Loasby wrote that to maintain flexibility, “perhaps the best way for firms to approach formal long-range planning is as something they should try to avoid,” he may have been talking above all about adhocracy. ❋ HENRY MINTZBERG (1994)

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