Exam 8: Systems-Based Organizing

An ___________________ network involves actors within an organization interacting with each other to solve problems or to innovate new methods and techniques.

___________________ refers to the unit that is most directly concerned with the production of goods or services.

Which of the following phrases best describes "authority"?

An ___________________ network involves one or more internal units interacting with units outside the organization.

The aerobics instructor at the local Y would belong to which component of Parsons' model of organizing?

In the flexiform model, ___________________ emerges from the expertise of the professional and the exigencies of the situation faced by the professional.

While the academic, intramural, and athletic programs of a university are easily segregated, ___________________ them into a meaningful whole in the pursuit of the larger organizational goals is more difficult.

Internal and external networks operate independently of one another.

In Parsons' view, an organization consists of distinct hierarchical sub-organizations: (a) ________________,(b) ________________, and (c)________________.

The ___________________ subsystem is concerned with those activities that are directly associated with the major tasks of the organization.

The golf pro at the local country club would belong to which component of Parsons' model of organizing?