TOS A & E: Organizations and Organizational Change - Muchinsky Flashcards
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A coordinated group of people who perform tasks to produce goods or services, colloquially referred to as companies.
Organization
A theory developed in the early 20th century that described the form and structure of organizations.
Classical theory of organizations
One of the basic components of any organizations, that composed of the activities and functions performed in them and the relationships among these activities and function.
A system of differentiated activities.
One of the basic components of any organizations that composed of activities and functions, people perform tasks and exercise authority.
People
One of the basic components of any organizations that cooperation must exist among the people performing their various activities to achieve a unity of purpose of their common goals.
Cooperation toward a goal
One of the basic components of any organizations that is established through superior subordinate relationship.
Authority
The concept that organizations should be divided into units that perform similar functions.
Functional Principle
The concept that organizations are structured by a chain of command that grows with increasing levels of authority.
Scalar principle
The concept that each subordinate should be accountable to only one supervisor.
Unity of command
The concept of differentiating organizational work into line and staff functions.
Line/staff principle
Organizational work that directly meets the major goals of an organization.
Line function
Organizational work that supports line activities.
Staff functions
The concept that refers to the number of subordinates a manager is responsible for supervising.
Span of control principle
A small span of control is ___ subordinates: a large span of control might be ____.
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A theory developed in the 1950s that described psychological or behavioral issues associated with organizations.
Neoclasical theory of organizations
What is the primary contribution of neoclasical theory?
Reveal the principles proposed by classical theory were not as universally applicable and simple as originally formulated.
A theory developed in the 1970s that described organizations in terms of interdependent components that form a system.
Systems theory
System theory that bring their own personalities, abilities and attitudes with them to the organizations, which influence what they hope to attain by participating in the system.
Indiviaduals
System theory that is interrelated pattern of jobs that provides the structures of the system
Formal organization
System theory that do not work in isolation but become members of small groups as a way to facilitate their own adaptability within the system.
Small group
System theory that differences exist among jobs within an organization and define the behavior of individuals within the system.
Status and role
System theory that the external physical environment and the degree of technology that characterizes the organization.
Physical setting
The arrangements of work functions within an organization design to achieve efficiency and control.
Organizational structure
This is the sum total of the ways in which its labor is divided into distinct tasks and then its coordination is achieved among these tasks. - Mintzberg (1983)
Structure
