Exam 5: Groups, Networks, and Organizations

In three to five sentences, compare transformational leadership and transactional leadership. Give an example of each from your own experience or from your knowledge of history.

Jacob and Amara both graduated from college with a high GPA and a good résumé in the field of accounting. A year after graduation, Jacob was working as a waiter, and Amara was working at an accounting firm that her father's best friend headed. Amara most likely got this job because:

The group a person uses to measure his or her own social worth is called:

Which of the following best characterizes the typical place of women in bureaucratic organizations such as corporations?

The football team at Three Rivers High School wanted to steal the mascot of the opposing team before the big homecoming game. Even though the captain of the football team knew the players would likely be caught and suspended by the principal, he agreed to steal the mascot. Why did the captain of the team agree to steal the mascot?

The Stanley Milgram study demonstrated that people are willing to obey authority:

The New York Times recently profiled a number of contemporary organizations such as Google that are shucking traditional bureaucratic organizations for ones that are looser and less hierarchical. According to Max Weber, compared to more traditional forms of organization, what is one outcome that a looser, less hierarchical organization is more likely to achieve?

Until the late twentieth century, organizational studies largely ignored:

Juan and Sally got divorced after three years of marriage, and both moved on to establish new relationships. Their divorce demonstrates that dyads are fragile social groups because:

John Meyer and Brian Rowan's (1977) findings about rules and procedures in organizations offer an important challenge to Max Weber's characteristics of ideal bureaucracy because:

According to Georg Simmel, an important aspect of groups is:

At the Symantec Corporation, the CEO, the president, and the vice president made a majority of the decisions, with little decision-making power given to upper-level managers or other employees. This type of concentration of power among a few people in an organization is called:

Max Weber argued that ________ is necessary in modern societies.

Every Sunday, Janet, Laneitha, and Margaret get together for lunch, and Janet usually decides which restaurant they will eat at. However, one Sunday, Laneitha and Margaret told Janet they wanted to try a new restaurant in town. Laneitha and Margaret formed a:

According to Max Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy:

How can Stanley Milgram's experiment help us better understand modern atrocities such as the Holocaust?

One criticism of formal organizations is that they:

The members of the drama club at Suzie's high school had a disagreement about who should play the lead in the upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet. Therefore, five of the twenty-five drama club members decided to leave the group, but this had little impact on the stability of the drama club. The rest of the club was able to go forward with the production, according to the textbook, because:

In three to five sentences, please describe one organization that provides you with bridging social capital and explain why it does. In another couple of sentences, describe another organization that provides you with bonding social capital and explain why it does.

During rush week when the brothers are recruiting new members, the Alpha Gamma Gamma fraternity always makes fun of its rival fraternity, Alpha Sigma Sigma. This increases the bonding and sense of loyalty among the members of Alpha Gamma Gamma. We could consider them members of: