Henry Mintzberg | the Professional Organization

Multiple Choice

Henry Mintzberg | The Professional Organization
Mintzberg first discusses the basic structure and uniqueness of professional organizations and how they differ from machine bureaucracies and innovative organizations. He then presents various forms and models of professional organizations. Finally, he shows how the characteristics of being both democratic and autonomous can lead to favorable as well as unfavorable conditions among professionals.
-Administrators maintain power over professionals only as long as they

A) impose solutions on professionals involved in a dispute.
B) maintain top-down hierarchies of power.
C) control professionals according to the will of outside financial agencies.
D) are perceived as effectively serving the interests of the professionals.