Exam 4: Organizational Theory

What is organizational culture?

Structural approaches are criticized for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ______.

Weber's models of legitimate authority include all of the following EXCEPT ______.

What can the humanist, pluralist, and formal approaches contribute to organizational theory?

Compared with traditional hierarchical authority, network analysis is ______.

The scientific management movement placed too much emphasis on ______ and too little emphasis on human behavior and workers' satisfaction.

Efficiency has great value for the scientific management movement as well as for ______.

Scholars debate whether networks constitute an approach, a theory, a method, or prescription, but there is rising recognition of the power of ______ approaches to public administration.

All of the following are challenges to structural perspectives and systems theory EXCEPT ______.

Organizational culture emphasizes which apparent reality amount agencies?

In Weber's mind, on what principal does bureaucratic organization hinge?

The weakness of these approaches stems from overgeneralization.

Of the following choices, ______ studies how an organization interacts with its environment through inputs, throughputs, and outputs.

What condition (or reality) does Kettl argue that challenges classical and bureaucratic models of organization?

Which of the following is an acceptable approach to building a more effective organization according to the humanist approach?

Self-interested is an assumption of which of the following schools of thought?

Rational-legal authority is most closely associated with ______.

The scientific management movement placed too much emphasis on efficiency and too little emphasis on ______.

A doctrine of the classical school states that organizations can be structured according to all of the following EXCEPT ______.

In what ways have Gulick and Weber contributed to the structural approach?