As an organization scales, it can become impossible for every employee to maintain personal relationships with every other employee. At that point, mechanistic structures can support the standardization and formalization needed for effective coordination across the organization.

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In the survival and early success phase, the organization scales up and finds continuing success. It develops more formal structures around more specialized job assignments, adopts incentives and work standards, and communication shifts to a more formal tone with the introduction of upper- and lower-level managers. Personal relationships among every employee become impossible, and mechanistic structures are appropriate at this stage to support the standardization and formalization needed for effective coordination across the organization.

Survival and Early Success Phase of the Organizational Life Cycle

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