Editing Technostructure (section)

==Goals of the technostructure==
Since the technostructure is composed of a [[hierarchical]] system of influential employees inside the enterprise, its primary goal is not to maximize their profits but rather survival, continuous growth and maximal size.  While it must maintain acceptable relations with their shareholders, [[hegemonic]] growth is more beneficial to the technostructure.

According to [[Henry Mintzberg]], a technostructure's influence is based on systems of expertise, but a technostructure gains power to the extent to which it can develop systems of bureaucratic control.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl">[[Henry Mintzberg]], "Power In and Around Organizations", [[Prentice Hall]], 1983, p. 134-137 [http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=134841&silo_library=GEN01]</ref> Strong organisational ideology decreases the need for bureaucratic control and technostructure.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl"/> Thus, a technostructure usually resists the development and/or maintenance of organisational ideology.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl"/>

As the structures of control and adaptation that the technostructure designs are more necessary when something changes, technostructure is in favour of constant change.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl"/> That happens even if they are not useful for the organisation itself.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl"/> On the other hand, Mintzberg thinks that such changes tend to be cautious, as technostructure tries to standardise the work of all other parts of the organisation, and major changes make that harder.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl"/>

Among organisation's goals technostructure prefers the ones that are operational, measurable, as they make it easiest to demonstrate the usefulness of bureaucratic control.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl"/> Among those goals, technostructure prefers the ones related to efficiency, economical goals.<ref name="HenryMintzberg_1983_134-137psl"/>