Practice question · True or false
A mechanistic structure outperforms an organic one when the environment is stable and the work well understood.
Hints
- What does standardisation buy in a predictable setting?
- Neither structure is better in general.
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True
Why
True. Where the task is known and unchanging, standardisation and clear hierarchy are efficient and cheap to coordinate. Organic structures earn their overhead only when the environment shifts faster than procedures can be rewritten, which is why 'flatten the org chart' is advice, not a law.
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