Quiz - preparation for midterm

What is regarded as the starting point of organization theory?

• Hawthorne studies

• book Shop

  management

• introduction of an assembly line in Ford

• book Administration industrielle et générale

What was Weber's goal?

• Systematization

• Efficiency

Which of the following is not a legacy of classical organization theory?

• Incentive payment

  systems

• Understanding that the organisation is a technical system

• Large increase in

  productivity

• Understanding that the organisation is a social system

What is a Hawthorne effect?

• the case where people value social interactions more than salary

• in case people feel overseen,

  they will modify their behavior

• the common name for communication problems

Organization are open system whose parts are in constant

interaction with each other and in constant interaction with the

environment according to

• the systems theory approach

• contingency theory

• neoclassical theory

Organizational factor that

directly or indirectly shapes the organizational solution is called a design element.

• True

• False

External design elements are...

• under control by the management.

• not under control by the management.

Internal design elements of a certain organization can be changed by its management.

• True

• False

Which design element can be regarded as both external and internal?

• strategy

• goals

• technology

• customers

Which of the following elements is not external?

• demographic trends

• national culture

• strategic alliances

• shareholders