last updated 9/5/2012
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
and punishments more important
to compensate for this weakness.
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