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adhocracy

(ædˈhɒkrəsɪ)

management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them

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adhocracy - an organization with little or no structure; "the choice between bureaucracy and adhocracy represents a common dilemma"; "the need for informational flexibility can lead to adhocracy"

organization, organisation - a group of people who work together

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adhocracy

n no pl → Vertrauen nt → auf Ad-hoc-Entscheidungen; (= organization) → Adhokratie f

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* They practice what Resilience calls "adhocracy," which is characterized by "informal team roles, limited focus on standard operating procedures, deep improvisation, rapid cycles, selective decentralization, the empowerment of special teams, and a general intolerance of bureaucracy."

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A negative aspect of an adhocracy is that the team member's knowledge is generally tacit and may leave the organization when they do.

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This follows the ideas of Feller (2002), who advocated for the management styles characterized by adhocracy, a dynamic, flexible organizational form that shuns hierarchical control (p.