organizations

In a bureaucracy, every employee has equal authority and responsibility.

• True

• False

Organizations enable people who are often total strangers to work together toward common goals.

• true

• false

Formal organizations are groups deliberately constructed to reach certain specific, clearly stated goals.

• true

• false

A dyad consists of three people; it is the smallest possible group.

• true

• false

As groups increase in size, so does the need for a more formal type of leadership.

• true

• false

Organizations that people join because of shared interests and values are called _________.

• peer groups

• voluntary associations

• formal organizations

• aggregates

Research reveals which of the following to be a major dysfunction of bureaucracies?

• trained incapacity

• promotions based upon skill and performance

• emphasis upon efficiency

• all of the above

Research reveals which of the following to be a major dysfunction of bureaucracies?

• trained incapacity

• promotions based upon skill and performance

• emphasis upon efficiency

• all of the above

Weber found bureaucracies to have all but which one of the following attributes?

• a division of labor

• hierarchy of authority

• impersonality

• selections of personnel by political connections

Goals of formal organizations _________.

• are many and varied

• may be in conflict within the organization

• may conflict with the goals of other organizations

• all of the above