Adhocracy

How it is used

Use in organisational analysis; it describes a coordination pattern, not simply the absence of organisation.

Example sentences

1. The research unit operated as an adhocracy, forming new expert teams around each difficult problem.

   Team arrangements adapt to the problem rather than remain fixed by routine.

2. An adhocracy gave the designers flexibility but made long-term responsibility harder to trace.

   Flexible coordination can create a need to clarify continuing accountability.

Common collocations

• an organisational adhocracy
• adhocracy structure

Related terms

• hierarchyA system in which the people in an organisation are arranged in levels, with each level having more authority than the one below it.
• accountabilityThe duty to answer for the result of a task or decision, which includes explaining what happened and accepting the consequences, even if others did the work.

More terms: Organisational Structure

• manager
• team leader
• org chart
• report to
• direct report
• line manager
• senior management
• middle management
• span of control
• matrix structure
• silo
• chain of command