Dictionary

adhocratically en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ædhəˈkɹædɪk(ə)li/ (General-American)
• /adhəˈkɹatɪk(ə)li/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From adhocratic + -ally or adhocratical + -ly.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:organizational theory) In an adhocratic manner.
   • The primary function of the multicratic lead agency in the extreme application is to plan the system, to adhocratically procure participating organizations, and to manage their relationships similar to the way that the management of a hierarchical organization integrates organizational parts. 2005, Richard A. Narad, “The Multicratic Organization: A Model for Management of Functional Interdependence”, in Thomas D. Lynch, Peter L. Cruise, editors, Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach (Public Administration and Public Policy; 116), 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 768:
   • That one department is managed bureaucratically and the other adhocratically can make their interacting or interfacing difficult. 1981, David R. Hampton, Contemporary Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 534:
   • The decentralized organizational forms suggested by communications-cost theories may not have the totally uncoordinated character of markets, but can replace limited, carefully planned communication channels with much more numerous and flexible channels, both laterally and vertically. In one popular view, information flows can be dictated "adhocratically" by needs at any given moment[…]. 1994, August T. Horvath, Janet Fulk, “Information Technology and the Prospects for Organizational Transformation”, in Branislav Kovačić, editor, New Approaches to Organizational Communication, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 123:
   • As such, depending on the degree to which the particular school is more adhocratically or bureaucratically oriented, mainstreaming for these students more or less represents symbolic integration, primarily in nonacademic classrooms […] 1992, Thomas Hehir, Thomas Latus, editors, Special Education at the Century's End: Evolution of Theory and Practice since 1970 (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series; 23), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Educational Review, →ISBN, page 256:

Forms

Relateds

adhocratic · adhocrat · adhocratical · adhocracy

Translations (1)

pl adhokratycznie (Translations)