Exam 14: Managing Organizational Design

The Aston researchers identified five variables drawn from Max Weber's initial list of fifteen.______ refers to the extent to which the organization ensures that decision-making is referred to the apex of the organization,or distributed across lower levels.

According to your textbook,why would it be erroneous to project organizational assumptions - such as structure and hierarchy etc.- on Linux?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main mechanisms of isomorphism?

Matrix organizations are ______.

An organization that adopts technologies that routinize and standardize processes will tend towards bureaucracy.Such a prediction assumes organization design is contingent upon ______.

Networks,cellular models,federal approaches,creative compartments,post-modern models,flexible,virtual,and individualized corporations are all examples of ______.

Is organization structure only contingent upon size,technology,and environment?

Describe Woodward's three basic types of technology.How might each type affect organizational structure?

What does the concept of SARFIT - Structural Adjustment to Regain Fit - mean?

Joan Woodward classified contingent technologies into three categories.What term did she use to categorize technology in organizations where production involved tailored designs for different customers with small production runs?

A rhizome is ______.

According to Abrahamson (1997),______ creates,designs and sells management fashions.

In contingency theory what does the anagram SARFIT represent?

The belief in causality,which suggests that some variables will affect other variables in specific and predictable ways,and that we should objectively identify and measure those variables in organization which have such relationships,is a hallmark of ______?

DiMaggio and Powell (2002)have labelled the process of organizations copying each other as ______.

As organizations grow,they will tend towards bureaucracy.Such a prediction assumes organization design is contingent upon ______.

According to Burns and Stalker,organizations that exist in dynamic,uncertain and unpredictable environments are more likely to have ______.

Who are the two Scottish researchers who argued organizations are variable structures which are primarily contingent upon their environment?

John Child's (2002)concept of strategic choice argues that ______.

The Aston researchers identified five variables drawn from Max Weber's initial list of fifteen.______ refers to the extent to which the organization had lots of job descriptions and designs.