Part 4:
Professional Bureaucracy
Professional Bureaucracy is defined as a bureaucratic structure with little formalization, which entails a large operating core that is highly autonomous and controlled by trained expertise due to the complex nature of tasks. This indicates that the environmental contingency in which professional bureaucracy works is stable but complex in nature where standardization of skill performs as the prime coordinating mechanism, where the works necessitate great knowledge and skill to create output form input that clearly depict the authority originates from experts’ expertise and lies in their hands to control their works. Abernethy and Stoelwinder (1990) stated that as the autonomous and dominant characteristics of operating core diminish the influence of technostructure, top and middle line over it and the result is a flat organizational configuration. Continue reading
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