ADMS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Scientific Management, Organism

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Peter Tsasis

Document Summary

Classical school is based implicitly on conception of organizations that employs a machine metaphor. Machine metaphor organizations that function like a machine in an orderly, prescribed, rational and controlled manner. Scientific management encompasses notion of control and efficiency. Larger organizations because of the need to control and coordinate many employees. Routine technology more suitable for mechanistic automated and standardized technology and operations typical of mass production. Good for static environment static environment exhibits little if any change. Organism metaphor organizations as a systems of mutually connected and dependent parts that share a common life. Suggests we can conceive of organizations as living organisms that contain a combination of elements that are differentiated yet integrated, attempting to survive. Behavioural school of management based on this metaphor. Nonroutine technology include anything from conducting genetic research to making custom furniture. Dynamic environment contains much uncertainty and change, organic structure has higher adaptiveness to change.