This presonal responsibility for continuing professional development aims as internalising standards. These are targeted to the client. They also serve to co-ordinate the professional work. Comparing the Machine Bureaucracy and the PB A machine bureaucracy determines standards internally, whereas those within a PB ascribe to standards prevailing beyond the organisation - the externally determined standards of the profession. Thus a machine bureaucracy stresses the responsibility of the office, while a PB lays more store on expertise and an externally referenced body of rules, values and regulation.
Power is diffused.
However, A and B mean that when environmental pressures make radical change an imperative, innovation can be resisted. Mintzberg posits that thinking in the Professional Bureaucracy is typically convergent. Professionals use their deductive powers to locate the new situation within a framework of general, known concepts. But if turbulence reigns in the environment, new concepts need to be developed from new experience. Such think may need to be more divergent involving a break away from old understandings.