Explain mechanistic view of organization

 Mechanistic perspective

This is the most traditional view of the organization. Many classical theories of organizations represent a mechanistic view. Many management experts, economists,s, and scholars like F.W Taylor, Henry Fayol, Adam Smith, and Moony contributed to developing mechanistic theories of organizations and management. The mechanistic perspective has the following common features.

• This perspective views an organization as a machine that converts input into output with certain processes.
• It assumes that organizations operate in a predictable and stable environment. and
• The prime goal of the organization should be increasing efficiency through specialization standardization of work.
• It focuses on fixed working hours, fixed production and maintenance schedule, financial control
• system, and quality control system to make controlling functions more effective. This approach advocates for a tall organizational structure with a formal hierarchy of authority.
• It suggests different targets for output like sales targets to improve profitability.
• It believes that employees can be motivated by maintaining a good working environment for
• motivating and removing fatigue.
• This approach of organizing believes that there can be one best way of doing jobs and solving each problem with greater uniformity.

This perspective is commonly used in the theory of management in the organization. This approach can be suitable only for a stable environment. This perspective ignores the human aspects of an organization. It treats man as a machine. Therefore, this approach is unpopular and unacceptable among the employees.