Understanding Organizations

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Author: Henry Mintzberg
Author: Henry Mintzberg

Understanding how your organization functions can seem overwhelming; where to start? In this session, we start with four common forms of organizations and investigate their strengths, weaknesses, and implications. You will come to a better appreciation of your organization and others, seeing them as the interplay of specific forms and forces.

The objectives for today’s session are to:

  • Understand the various species of organizations, in particular four forms: entrepreneurial, machine, professional, and adhocracy
  • Appreciate the dynamic forces of each form
  • Clarify how your organization fits into this framework and where it could be strengthened

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CoachingOurselves is informal and social learning for managers. Each CoachingOurselves topic unravels a novel perspective, idea or theory on one aspect of management with carefully crafted content, questions and exercises that motivate ninety minutes of discussion, reflection and knowledge sharing. Senior managers use CoachingOurselves to align, engage and stimulate the team. Organizations integrate CoachingOurselves with formal initiatives to create a comprehensive enterprise learning architecture. Contact us online or by phone at 1-866-669-0838 to learn more.