Mechanistic versus Organic Organisational Structures.

In this vast growing global economy, organizations are often confronted with increasing instability due to continuous changes in technology, an influx of competition and rapidly changing customer needs. With respect to this it is imperative that organizations respond to required or forced changes to their environment if the firms existing goals are to be achieved. With this in mind, organizations turn to management to combat the budding problem, through organizing. Organizing involves the structuring of …

…The Structuring of Organizations. Prentice Hall . Clearly our deeply embedded ideas (culture) about the management of activities need to include more emphasis on the building of relationships and the development of communication (organic design) rather than using the traditional approach where management is viewed as the controlling of subordinates (mechanistic design). Without a doubt this is not the right model regardless of how many tools, steps and measures are classified for managing in this way.