Behavior in Organization Custom Research Report

Generally speaking, people need to work in culture in which employees were respected and felt free to take risks. Jerald Greenberg in his book “Behavior in Organizations” describes three principles of adhocracy culture:

delegate responsibility to encourage stuff to take initiative;

expect mistakes to be made and to be tolerant to them;

criticize in constructive, not destructive manner.

The advantages of adhocracy would be in its ability to be creative and adaptive. It allows specialists to collaborate or to use individual creativeness. Thanks to this interaction and collaboration, adhocracy becomes a workable alternative to bureaucracy.

At the same time, conflict is a normal part of adhocracy. There are no comprehensible subordinate relationships. The lack of standardized work can be an advantage and disadvantage of this system.

Alvin Toffler believed that adhocracy will become more common and replace bureaucracy. He also expected adhocracy to become a structure, formed to solve a given problem. However, in more recent years, companies have developed an approach that combines the toughness of bureaucracy with the plasticity of adhocracy.

It should be mentioned that both systems have their benefits. Each can help to solve the problem differently. Bureaucracy approaches each problem mechanically, while adhocracy analyzes problems from different angles. Facing with some kind of changes, adhocracy will be capable to adapt rapidly, while bureaucracy will need time to alter its rules.

Today we are capable to use many different theories, but regrettably there is no most excellent structure of organization. The reason for this is because every company has own variables like size and goals. Large companies usually select a bureaucratic system because it helps to achieve set objectives. New or small companies are more likely to choose adhocracy. It gives them freedom to learn their methods and markets. Adhocracy and bureaucracy are simply theoretical structures. They offer guide lines in business systems. But only certain interpretation influences their final implementation. That is why all systems are different and companies have opportunity to choose the most appropriate one.