Fall of Bureaucracy in Knowledge-based Organizations

Given the current chaos and complexity, contemporary era requires different organizational requirements from what the past eras did. Emergence and development of knowledge-based organizations entail new organizational structure some of its features are fundamentally different from those of the hierarchically traditional structures. These structures are indeed the informal structures, free and voluntarily interactions of individuals which have received scant attention in organizations, but are of crucial importance in the success of effective management of knowledge. Given the emphasis attached in the texts of knowledge-based organizations to process, team-based, organic and informal structures as to development of knowledge-based organizations, the researches first tried to investigate ineffectiveness of traditional bureaucratic organizations, second to identify appropriate structures for such organizations and their characteristics. Having employed descriptive-analytic approach, the researchers, while studying weaknesses of bureaucratic and hierarchical structures in knowledge management, have tried to address the structure of the future organizations. Then through offering an exact explanation on the distinctive structural dimensions of knowledge- based organizations such as informal interactions, they conclude offering confidence-based, emotional and extrovert interactive relations.