Exam 9: Organization Size, Life Cycle, and Decline

As organizations become larger, a smaller percentage of technical and professional support staff is recommended.

Formalization refers to rules, procedures, and written documents that prescribe the rights and duties of employees.

When downsizing, all of the following can help smooth the downsizing process and ease tensions for employees who leave and remain except:

Traditional authority refers to control coming from exemplary character of an individual and the aura he or she creates.

Identify an organization in which you have worked. Analyze its management as related to size of the organization.

Max Weber developed the concept of a bureaucracy to make organizations:

Describe the organizational characteristics associated with each stage of the life cycle.

Compare and contrast the three types of organizational control strategies.

Managers at the American Red Cross are struggling with raising enough funds to cover expenses. Donations have been declining for several years, and major disasters have strained the organization's resources. Which of the following is considered responsible for the organizational decline at the American Red Cross?

As organizations become larger, greater centralization is necessary.

Carson is the manager of Cutter's Consulting, a consulting company composed of professionals from different fields. In such a company, Carson would be wise to:

Market control occurs when price competition is used to evaluate the output and productivity of an organization or its major departments and divisions.

When clan control works, bureaucratic control is still needed.

If Max Weber were living in the United States today, and observing the push away from bureaucracy, what do you think he would say? Would he defend the use of bureaucracy today, or are there different environmental factors that would cause him to abandon bureaucracy?

At Shizugawa Elementary School and Toyota Motors, bureaucratic control was carried to such an extreme that it created problems.

Describe Weber's three types of authority that explains the creation and control of larger organizations.

Describe the differences between large and small organizations.

Which of the following is not a type of authority that could explain the creation and control of a large corporation?

What type of top management style does a bureaucratic organization in the formalization stage possess?

Which of the following is the use of rules, policies, hierarchy of authority, written documentation, standardization, and other bureaucratic mechanisms to standardize behavior and assess performance?