1. ADHOCRACY
THEORY SYSTEM
Group #
 Anum Mustaq
Fatima Mairaj
Usaid Rehman

2. WHAT IS ADHOCRACY?
According to Jonathan Grudin
 Adhocracies are highly decentralized organizations in small teams
in response to changing conditions in dynamic, complex
environments.
According to Henry Mintzberg
 In adhocracy we have a highly organic structure with little
formalization of behavior.
Article: Revisiting
Adhocracy: From Rhetorical
Revisionism to Smart Mobs

3. ADHOCRACY THEORY VIEWED AS
MODERNIZATION THEORY?
 Innovative organization
 support staff is key
 Adhocracies engage in sophisticated (Automated)
 Focused on external environment

4. HISTORY OF ADHOCRACY
 In 1970 Alvin Toffler came up with the term Adhocracy
 In 1979 the concept was elaborate by Canadian author Henry Mintzberg.
 World War II (Development task of forces)
 Negative and Positive side of adhocracy
Book: Organization Theory:
Structures, Designs, And
Applications
Page: 302

5. EXAMPLE # 1 GOOGLE

6. EXAMPLE # 2 TATA
CONSULTING SERVICES
 Social, economic and technological changes
 Success in terms of innovation and creativity
 To develop new relationships, new opportunity and
relationship, services.

7. DESIGN
 Focus on innovation, cannot rely on standardisation
 Gives power to experts, but cannot rely on their
standardised skills to achieve coordination
 Mutual adjustment in and between project teams

8. CONDITIONS
 Dynamic and complex environment
 Interdependencies that need to be handled
 Frequent product changes
 Often young (esp. operating adhocracies)