Question

Lena works as an order-taker at fast burger, a fast-food restaurant. she does not cook food, or even package the final order, but she does input the order and takes payment. lena reports directly to the shift manager, and she seldom interacts with the general manager. fast burger is an example of a mechanistic organization.
a. True
b. False

Answer 1

The fast burger is not an example of mechanistic organization, therefore, it is false. It is because a mechanistic organization should provide rules and tasks that are provided to each employee and the authority should be centralized—in the given scenario, the mechanistic organization is not seen above.

Answer 2

To answer this, let's first take a look at the characteristics of a mechanized system as according to Black's Law Dictionary. First, it has highly centralized authority which means that it is hierachical and bureaucratic. Second, it has formal SOP's and third, it encourages specialized functions. Above, we can see strong bureaucracy because Lena doesn't even interact with her GM and we can see that she only does two things, input order and take payment which is specialization. Having two out of three characteristics present (because the last one can't be proven), we can say that this, this is an exampke of a mechanistic organization.