Exam 7: Principles of Organizing

_____________________ refers to the number of people, units, and operations that a manager can control effectively and efficiently in a given time period.

_____________________ should be narrow at the top levels of management and wider at the lower levels.

Employees should be hired and fired based on their ______________________ relevant to a particular office or position in the organization.

When an organization is created, some of the tenets of a bureaucracy naturally follow its development.

Weber's bureaucratic tenets (or principles) include (a) ______________, (b) ______________, (c) ______________, (d) ______________, and (e) ______________.

When the head of an organization declares that she will make all decisions regarding employee drug testing policy, this is an example of which of the following?

"Span of control" refers to the number of people, units, and operations that a manager can control effectively and efficiently. Many factors contribute to this principle; which of the following is not one of them?

_______________ is the notion that employers treat everyone as equals.

_____________________ means that different people are asked to carry out different activities.

Performing tasks that are narrow in scope leads to which of the following?

The principle that states "No one can serve two masters" is similar to which of the following?

When the manager of ticketing operations hires an employee primarily because that person is the nephew of a member of the university's board of governors, which of Weber's tenets has been violated?

Clegg, Kornberger, and Pitsis (2005) stated that this is one of the most important issues within organizing.

The system of ______________________ ensures that there is consistency and uniformity in the activities of the organization and its members.

Division of labor occurs when the positions of an organization are arranged in a hierarchical structure and simple and well-defined tasks are distributed to members as official duties.

All of the following are examples of departmentalization except:

Specialization contributes to efficiency in all of the following ways except:

Weber emphasized that authority in a bureaucracy resides in a ______________ in the organization and not in the ______________ who occupies it.

Competitive sport should be loosely structured, whereas recreational sport should be bureaucratically structured.

The principle of ___________________ suggests that each member of the organization would follow the orders of only one supervisor and be accountable only to that supervisor.