Exam 3: Systems View of Organizations

Negative entropy implies that sport managers must constantly scrutinize their programs of activities and change or upgrade them to suit environmental changes.

Which force of isomorphism states that all organizations behave similarly because of the value and belief systems of decision makers?

Stakeholder _________________ refers to the capacity to influence an organization.

Organizational outputs can be classified as product outputs and maintenance outputs.

An organization's system of inputs, throughputs, and outputs requires the internal-external feedback loops.

An organization's system of inputs, throughputs, and outputs requires which two feedback loops?

A system's tendency to stipulate a set of procedures and regulations for each subsystem relating to what to do and when and how it should be done is called ___________________.

Support staff and administration are _______________ that can be conceived as systems themselves.

________________________ is the notion that an organization is dependent on other entities in its environment for its resources.

Stakeholder groups can be classified as ________________stakeholder groups and ________________ stakeholder groups.

The social component of the general environment would include the demography, or characteristics, of the population.

__________________ provides an indication of the degree to which the organization has achieved or is achieving its objectives.

An internal feedback loop in a systems view of organizations is analogous to organizational effectiveness.

The tendency of a system to subdivide its subsystems into functional and specialized units, and to order them in a hierarchy, is called ___________________.

_________________ are arbitrarily set to suit specific purposes.

That part of the environment that is more closely related to the system and that influences it is referred to as the __________________ environment.

The tendency for organizations, as they become larger, to have more rules and regulations is a reflection of which of the following?

Institutional theory suggests that an organization gains legitimacy through strong association with individuals in other organizations.

The three stakeholder attributes outlined in the text are (a) ___________________, (b) ___________________, and (c) ____________________.

____________________ is a system's attempt to reverse the process of disorder and decay and to prolong its life.