My prompt:

Visit a McDonald's restaurant. Spend enough time there to observe the various operations, as well as the processes and structure of its organization. Relate what you see to the discussions in class and the readings in the text concerning mechanistic organizations.

2 questions:

1. Have you demonstrated an understanding of where mechanization is appropriate and where it is not? How has McDonald's incorporated the process of innovation with its mechanistic organization to overcome the weaknesses of mechanistic organizations? 15 points.

2. Demonstrates how classical management and mechanization contributes to the structure of franchises in general.