Day: July 14, 2024

Alex plc is a machine bureaucracy.

Which of the following characteristics is the company most likely to exhibit?

Select ONE answer:

1. The technostructure exerts a pull towards standardised processes
2. The operating core exerts a pull towards standardised skills
3. The middle line exerts a pull towards fragmentation
4. The support staff exert a pull towards collaboration

Show your workings to arrive at your answer, and explain and justify your reasons:

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This multiple-choice question is suitable for Accounting KS5 classes.

The answer is 1

1. Correct – Machine bureaucracy depends primarily on the standardisation of its operating work processes for co-ordination. Because of that the technostructure, which houses the analysts (technocrats) who do the standardising, emerges as the key part of the structure. When the operating core exerts a pull towards standardised skills (2), it is generally a professional bureaucracy. In a divisionalised structure, a good deal of power si delegated to market-based units in the middle line (3), whose efforts are coordinated by the standardisation of outputs through the extensive use of performance control systems.
2. Not correct
3. Not correct
4. Not correct

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