Adhocrat

//adhəˈkɹat//

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The efficient manager of bureaucracy was to be replaced by a change-responsive ‘adhocrat’ (Toffler, 1970). But […] the 1950s’ tasks of management are not being replaced, but enlarged and complemented; much of the equipment of the industrial manager will remain vital to the firm’s success.

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There is, thus, in the professional activity of the adhocrat, or the common type of consultant, no delimitative intentionality. In opposition to this orientation, paraeconomy is conceived as a category of confrontal and delimitative thinking.

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"Ad hocracy" challenges traditional bureaucracy by denying its basic unit, position; instead of routine, position will be changing constantly, varied as to "ad hocrat". Division of labor becomes outdated in this conjecture: everyone is a generalist and specialist simultaneously due to the explosion of knowledge. Toffler foresees the equality of workers' capabilities. Today's janitor will be tomorrow's president. Rotating the job is an indicator of an egalitarian society.

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[T]he para-economist should not be confused with what Alvin Toffler calls the adhocrat.

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