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Organisational Change
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Organisational Change

by Harsh Pathak
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
12h 9m
English
Pearson India
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CASE 3 ORGANISING THE PRESIDENT'S ADMINISTRATION

Richard, a former president's aide, and political analyst, thinks the newly elected president's office is wrongly organised. According to Richard, the structure the previous president and his people had chosen, promoted new ideas, but it also wasted time, sapped morale, and invited disaster.

The present administration has organised itself as an adhocracy—an organic structure that minimises reliance on regularised and systematic patterns of providing advice and instead relies heavily on the president to distribute assignments and select whom he listens to and when. Richard claims that an adhocracy has six drawbacks. (1) It tends to discourage debate and dissent. Important meetings—where sensitive ...

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