Mintzberg Management Structure

This structure focuses on operating core which might generally be skilled and knowledge workers common in university, public accosting firm, and craft production firm. The products and services are standardization and relatively complex. Thus, production process could be directly control by operators. The standardization of skills and training and indoctrination might be relied for coordination by professional bureaucracy. Therefore, standardization and decentralization might be used in coordinating mechanism. Moreover, specialists tend to work independently but serves their clients closely. For instance, there is only one teacher in the classroom and teacher also work with colleagues and supervisor (Bidwell, 1965 cited in Mintzberg, 1983, …show more content…
This approach also has some drawbacks on many aspect of human behavior. As a result in promoting work boredom with a tight control system and the separation between operating core and their managers. Managers in Mintzberg’s approach tend to have various roles such as planning and controlling activities, coordinating with higher and lower position, making decisions, and human resource management such as monitoring, punishing and developing. Manager could be vital job to the society in organization (Mintzberg, 1989). Organization performance comes from management strategy by the middle line. Moreover, Mintzberg (1983) mentions that the strategy that organization adopted could have an effect on structural configurations. The most important limitation from Taylorism is that people or could be treated as a machine. Workers might not be an important part because they are poorly treated. In contrast with Mintzberg’s notion that he considers employees as one of significant factors, the five basic parts, in organization management. Moreover, each group of employees would have different roles and pulls in five different configurations. In addition, paying efficiency wage or piece wage pay would throws labor market into disequilibrium and leads to unemployment. Creativity of workers could be limited by this approach. Fordism attempts to maximized efficiency throughout the assembly line …show more content…
As environment could be very complex and volatile. Management might need to wider their views and learning new strategy to rectify problems and develop work processes. Mintzberg’s pentagon allows management to explicitly understand transformation between the five forms and hybrid of configurations (Mintzberg, 1983). Moreover, he mentions that organizations generally perform hybrid form because of environment factors. Moreover, Thompson (1991) researches on pentagon ideal structure and finds that majority of sample firms tend to adopt at least one ideal structure. Therefore, management could uses it as a guideline for transformation to the new organizational structure. For instance, in the industrial revolution era, a wise leader could response to environment by adjust strategy from classical approach to scientific approach in order to serve high demand in the market by emphasizes to produce a mass productivity. It could said that the perception of manager would have an effect to restructuring. On the other hand, early theories could explain only one pure