Exam 9: Widening the Context

Attiti is a quiet, but brusque man.He has little authority, but he has worked at the courthouse for many years and knows how to do just about anything.Attiti's power and influence at the courthouse likely comes from his ________.

Interns can gather community information by using the Internet, visiting town halls, or by venturing into the community itself.

At Helping Hands Agency, communication flows from the social workers to the supervisors to the management levels.This represents a ________.

Bolman and Deal's human resource perspective is more concerned with what people are supposed to do, not what they actually do.

A system is a group of people with a common purpose who are interconnected such that no one person's actions or reactions can be fully understood without also understanding the influence on that person of everyone else in the system.

Mariah is a pediatric counselor at a large hospital.She loves to celebrate, so she has compiled a list of her coworkers' birthdays and decorates each person's office on the special day.In terms of Bolman and Deal's human resources framework, this situation represents _______.

How does contextual engagement all you to become a more engaged citizen?

Which type of agency is funded solely through local, state, and federal tax revenues?

Goals are easier to measure than are objectives.

Which of the following statements about an organization's external environment is FALSE?

Which of the following statements accurately describes an organization's authority structure?

When taking a community inventory, which of the following represents the cultural dimension?

To become a civic professional, interns must engage in the art of ________, which calls for them to move back and forth between the theoretical and human contexts of their profession.

Which of the following describes the duties of each position in an organization?

Vertical coordination and control structures are less formal and more flexible than lateral ones.

Which of the following statements about systems concepts in organization is FALSE?