MINTZBERG'S THEORIES

Mintzberg's Theories



Mintzberg's Theories

Mintzberg's Theories

According to Mintzberg, every organized human activity - from the manufacture of ceramic to placing a man on the moon - gives rise to two fundamental and opposing requirements: the division of labor in the various tasks to perform and coordinate tasks to carry out the activity. "The structure is simply the way an organization divides the work into separate tasks and manages the coordination of these tasks.

According to Henry Mintzberg, organizations have only a few basic structures or configurations. These attributes are identified as the key organization - such as components of organizations, the mechanisms used to coordinate their work, the elements of organizational design, power systems, and its external environment - are interrelated in various ways of the total organizational system. Mintzberg four theories used for this purpose are:

1) The business

2) The machine

3) Diversification,

4) The professional

Before turning to a detailed analysis of these theories concerning the evaluation, a summary of what Mintzberg identifies as the basic building blocks of organization, or attributes, is in order. These are: 1) the parties and the people in an organization, 2) the coordination mechanisms, 3) its design parameters, and 4) environmental factors that influence the choice of design parameters.

Parties and People

For Mintzberg, an organization made up of a nucleus • operating, i.e. individuals who do the basic work of producing goods and services (in other words, the operating personnel);

• A strategic apex, i.e., one or more full-time managers who oversee the entire system (in short management, senior);

• A middle line - in the most complex organizations, managers of operational staff and managers of managers, who create a hierarchy of authority between the operating core and the strategic apex;

• A techno structure - even in complex organizations, a group of analysts to plan and control the work of others;

• Support staff - a group of individuals who provide domestic services, such as a mailroom, a lawyer, or public relations office, and

• Ideology or culture, which encompasses the traditions and beliefs of an organization that distinguish it from other organizations. Employees who work for the organization internally in his coalition, while persons or bodies outside the organization to have dealings with external coalition is formed. Both groups exert influence on the organization, its decisions and actions. In each of the configurations Mintzberg, a series of internal and environmental requirements that determine a specific part of the organization will become dominant. Coordination mechanisms One of the main needs of everyone, especially the most complex organizations, is to coordinate their work. Mintzberg suggest some key areas through which organizations achieve coordination of work. mutual adjustment achieves coordination by the simple process of communication of information (two employees).

Direct supervision involves having a number of orders or instructions of one or more people who in one way or another engaged in work related. The standardization of work processes achieve coordination by establishing how the work processes to be performed - such standards usually being developed and published by the techno-structure in the form of ...