Formal Organizations Lesson

Multiple Choice

A bureaucracy is based on

• informal organizations.

• oligarchy

• coercion

• rationalization.

Multiple Choice

What did Max Weber say was an advantage of bureaucracies?

• They are technically superior to other forms of organizations.

• They tend to spread power evenly among those people who are part of them.

• They can exist only in government, but not in private companies.

• They tend not to keep any written information concerning their activities, so it is difficult to trace what they have done.

Multiple Choice

According to the Iron Law of Oligarchy, power tends to concentrate in the hands of fewer and fewer people.

• True

• False