Organizational CommunicationFive Theoretical Approaches

• 1. Mechanistic Approach

  • Organizations are machines
  • Managers are task oriented
  • Workers are interchangeable parts
  • Wages are the lubricant keeping the machine operating
  • Values - control, efficiency, and rationality
  • Impersonal atmosphere
  • Example: General Motors
  • Example: McDonalds

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