Henry Mintzberg | the Professional Organization

question 32

Multiple Choice

Henry Mintzberg | The Professional Organization
Mintzberg first discusses the basic structure and uniqueness of professional organizations and how they differ from machine bureaucracies and innovative organizations. He then presents various forms and models of professional organizations. Finally, he shows how the characteristics of being both democratic and autonomous can lead to favorable as well as unfavorable conditions among professionals.
-Change in professional organizations may be brought about best by calling on professionals' sense of

• A) individual freedom.
• B) hierarchy of power.
• C) technocratic control.
• D) public responsibility.

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