Mechanistic vs organic organisation
- 1. Mechanistic Vs . Organic Organizational Structure
- 3. Mechanistic Management System The specialized differentiation of functional tasks into which the problems and tasks facing the concern as a whole are broken down. Abstract nature of each individual task. Reconciliation, for each level in the hierarchy, of these distinct performances by the immediate superiors
- 4. Cont’d Definition of rights and obligations and technical methods attached to each functional role. The translation of rights and obligations and methods into the responsibilities of a functional position. Hierarchic structure of control, authority, and communication. Tendency for interaction between members of the concern to be vertical
- 5. Cont’d Tendency for operations and working behavior to be governed by the instructions and decisions issued by superiors. Insistence on loyalty to the concern and obedience to superiors as a condition of membership. A greater importance and prestige attaching to internal (local) than to general (cosmopolitan) knowledge, experience, and skill.
- 7. Organic Management System The contributive nature of special knowledge and experience to the common task of the concern. The “realistic” nature of the individual task, which is seen as set by the total situation of the concern. The adjustment and continual re-definition of individual tasks through interaction with others.
- 8. Cont’d The shedding of “responsibility” as a limited field of rights, obligations, and methods. The spread of commitment to concern beyond any technical definition. A network structure of control, authority, and communication. Omniscience no longer imputed to the head of the concern; knowledge about the technical or commercial nature of the here and now task may be located anywhere in the network; this location becoming the ad hoc center of control authority and communication.
- 9. Cont’d A lateral rather than a vertical direction of communication through the organization, communication between people of different rank, also, resembling consultation rather than command. A content of communication which consists of information and advice rather than instructions and decisions. Commitment to the concern’s tasks and to the “technological ethos” of material progress and expansion is more highly valued than loyalty and obedience.
- 10. Cont’d Importance and prestige attach to affiliations and expertise valid in the industrial and technical and commercial milieux external to the firm.
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