Technostructure Quotes

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Given the five parts of the organization - operating core, strategic apex, middle line, technostructure, and support staff - we may now ask how they all function together. In fact, we cannot describe the one way they function together, for research suggests that the linkages are varied and complex. The parts of the organization are joined together by different flows - of authority, of work material, of information, and of decision processes. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
The formalization of behavior takes formal power away from the workers and the managers who supervise them and concentrates it near the top of the line hierarchy and in the technostructure, thus centralizing the organization in both dimensions. The result is Type A decentralization. Training and indoctrination produces exactly the opposite effect: it develops expertise below the middle line, thereby decentralizing the structure in both dimensions (Type E). Putting these two conclusions together, we can see that specialization of the unskilled type centralizes the structure in both dimensions, whereas specialization of the skilled or professional type decentralizes it in both dimensions. View quote
Henry Mintzberg