last updated 9/8/2006
McGaan's Conclusions About
Classical Organizations
- Classically managed organizations are tradition-bound,
mechanistic and stable. Thus, they tend to be slow and inflexible
- In these organizations
roles and rules are too inflexible for
easy evolution, making it difficult for managers or others to
bring about adjustments. Thus, these organizations work best in stable rather than turbulent or
rapidly changing environments.
- Vertical communication is very important and errors in up/down communication
cause big problems,
especially common is lack of adequate upward communication to provide high-level (central
office) decision-makers with adequate and accurate information for decisions.
- The heavy emphasis on downward
communication and control of organizational members (as well as
"deskilling"
by scientific job design), causes lowered creativity and morale and
can drive out quality people making rewards more important
to compensate for this weakness.
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