English

Adjective

adhocratic ‎(comparative more adhocratic, superlative most adhocratic)

1. (business, organizational theory) Relating to adhocracy; adhocratical.
   • 1973, Fields Within Fields Within Fields: A Quarterly Forum for Ongoing Creative Thinking about Solutions to Mankind Problems, New York, N.Y.: World Institute Council, ISSN 0015-0770, OCLC 890831131, page 63:

     The adhocratic unit comes in and goes out of existence as circumstances or opportunities dictate, with resources and personnel assignments reflecting the special problem the unit is to face.

   • 2000, Alan Dyson; Alan Millward, “Inclusion, Special Education and Schools as Organisations”, in Schools and Special Needs: Issues of Innovation and Inclusion, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7619-6441-4, page 27:

     A huge weight of philosophical argument is assembled in order to yield the notion of the adhocratic school as the best response to student diversity – then huge claims are made about the capacity of the adhocratic school to reconcile equity with excellence and, ultimately, to save democracy.

   • 2007 July, Manoj A. Gupte, Success of University Spin-offs: Network Activities and Moderating Effects of Internal Communication and Adhocracy, Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8350-0853-3, page 194:

     An adhocratic organization is able to adapt to environmental changes constantly. For example, responsibilities might shift to different people in response to external changes, the organizational structure might be altered from time to time, etc.

   • 2013, Cliff Moser, Architecture 3.0: The Disruptive Design Practice Handbook, Abingdon Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-62282-0, page 138:

     Since conflict and aggression reproduce rapidly within the adhocratic environment, your role should be to focus these emotions into productive project and organizational ends. Without this management, inefficiency soon becomes embedded into the project (and practice), which enjoys few or no standards. The adhocratic practice also suffers from unbalanced workloads between its members, as each project team protects itself from the chaos occurring in other teams […].

Synonyms

• adhocratical (rare)

Related terms

• adhocrat
• adhocracy
• adhocratically