The contingency approach to organizational design calls for managers to adopt a
structure that is in the middle of the continuum between the mechanistic model and the
organic model.
Goal setting increases our attention and directs our action toward goal attainment.
Describe the administrative decision model, the assumption on which this model is
based. Further define bounded rationality and satisficing and how these terms apply to
the administrative model.
The three dominant needs identified by David McClelland are the need for
achievement, need for affiliation, and the need for power.
Fayol proposed six management principles.
Staff positions are designed to contribute directly to achieving the organization’s goals.
An organization needs to decide its strategy before it designs its structure.
Good communicators use questions and seek ideas.
Person memory categorizes and stores information about all the people we know.
Fielder believes that leader behavior is relatively fixed (i.e., like personality),
Hersey-Blanchard believe that people can change their leadership styles depending on
the situation. Who is correct?
The process of job analysis considers the movements a worker must perform in
completing a task.
Transformational leadership is concerned with preserving the status quo by maintaining
the organization as it currently exists today.
Henry Mintzberg described his managerial roles as guidepost for explaining managerial
behavior.
Why should organizations implement policies concerning sexual harassment?
Concept to reality is the period of time between when a product is first considered and
when it is sold to a customer.
In his 14 Points of TQM, Deming states that quotas guarantee inefficiency and high cost
because they take into account only quantity, not quality of methods.
Organizations that use flexibility and adaptability to motivate employees is an organic
organization.
Common problems that arise in the creation of groups include role conflict, role
ambiguity, and cultural diversity.