Chapter 2 - Mintzberg's Organisational Configuration

Question 1

Mintzberg’s Organisational Configuration

Answer 1

Strategic apex - senior management
Middle line - middle management
Operating core - workers involved in production
Technostructure - provide input into standardisation of procedures and analysis
Support staff - admin support

Question 2

Ideology

Answer 2

organisation’s beliefs and values

Question 3

Mintzberg’s simple structure

Answer 3

Strategic apex dominates

Question 4

Mintzberg’s machine bureaucracy

Answer 4

Technostructure dominates

Question 5

Mintzberg’s professional bureaucracy

Answer 5

Operating core dominates

Question 6

Mintzberg’s divisionalised structure

Answer 6

Middle line dominates

Question 7

Mintzberg’s Adhocracy

Answer 7

Support staff/ operating core dominate

Question 8

Mintzberg’s missionary structure

Answer 8

Ideology dominates