单词 | adhocratic |
释义 | adhocraticadj. Chiefly Business. Characterized by adhocracy; informal, flexible. Also (frequently depreciative): lacking planning or strategy; ad hoc, inconsistent. ΚΠ 1970 A. Toffler Future Shock xviii. 362 The present administrative structures of education..will simply not be able to cope... They will be forced to move toward ad-hocratic forms of organization merely to retain some semblance of control. 1976 Sunday Chron. (Georgetown, Guyana) 10 Jan. 13 The Jamaican government has been spared what would have doubtlessly been severe pain for its ‘adhocratic’ foreign policy. 1990 Jrnl. Business & Psychol. 4 421 An institutionalized participative structure would require more fundamental organization wide changes than the adhocratic, isolated approach that is characteristic of Q[uality] C[ircle]s. 2009 E. van de Vliert Climate, Affluence, & Culture vii. 177 The accompanying adhocratic policies integrate strategy formulation and implementation, highlight bottom-up innovation and change, and adjust their products to the work environment of customers and to new developments outside the organization. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1970 |
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