Should organisations clearly resemble one or other of Mintzberg s configurations Justify your answer
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"Spans of control, types of formalisation and decentralisation, planning systems and matrix structures should not be picked and chosen independently, the way a shopper picks vegetables at the market. Rather, these and other elements of design should logically configure into internally consistent groupings" (Mintzberg, "The structuring of Organisations", The Strategy Process, Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, James Brian Quinn, and Sumantra Ghoshal, Prentice Hall, 4th edition 2003).
Should organisations clearly resemble one or other of Mintzberg's configurations? Justify your answer.
The question whether businesses should resemble one of Mintzberg's configurations is a very complex question with many possible answers for many different reasons. One of the most significant players in the organisation of business strategy is Henry Mintzberg and his organisational configurations. Henry Mintzberg is a Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal and professor of organization at INSEAD in France. Well known for his studies of strategic development and of managerial practice, Mintzberg is probably most famous for his configurations. Mintzberg was however not the first man to originate the argument for this strategy. "The success of different businesses could be explained not by their use of any single organisational attribute but how they interrelated various attributes"(Richard T Pascale 1984)...