Ch5s3: The Structure of Formal Organizations

Hospitals, hotels, and banks are examples of:

• Aggregates

• Organizations

• Social networks

• Primary groups

When Jessica registers her daughter for kindergarten she must submit her birth certificate, immunization records, and proof of residence. The existence of such regulations is a characteristic of:

• Aggregates

• Secondary groups

• Formal organizations

• Social networks

Harris Consulting has been contracted by a large medical facility to streamline its operations to become more efficient and productive. Based on these stated goals, the medical facility is a(n):

• Flexible workplace

• Informal organization

• Bureaucracy

• Social network

A situation in which a few people rule the many

• Oligarchy

• Alienation

• Formal organization

• Secondary group

A large, complex group that has been established to achieve a specific goal:

• Oligarchy

• Primary group

• Secondary group

• Formal organization

Max Weber noted that all bureaucracies, regardless of their goals or purposes, have common characteristics.

• True

• False

Rationality is a ranked authority structure that operates according to specific rules and procedures.

• True

• False

Based on Weber's Model of Bureaucracies, workers are replacable.

• True

• False