Question

Write a documented essay comparing the use of communication in the Machine metaphor and in the Systems metaphor.

Answer 1

Machine metaphor: it is a concept of hierarchical, command and control in any organizations It has changed out nature of organizations, the structure of industrial society and our thinking It led us to believe that every thing can only be understood as clock - like mechanism composed of seperable parts acting to other as linear laws of course and effect. It tells us that if we can understand anything and laws governing that, we could reconstruct into a whole predict construct able mechanism. Such type of communications are in our society in which there is a command at one place and gets precise results at another and knows for a desired result which command we have to give we have organizations like political, commercial, social, engineering and there is a issue of command in accordance of belief. But expected results never been enduring. This type of communication in society led to creation of managers expert of reducing variability and diversity to uniform, repetitive, assembly - line process