Comm 4230 Midterm - T/F
The "New Science" systems theory is founded on the notion that all systems in nature and society are like those described by classical physics.
FALSE
The exact consequences and extent of global warming is relatively simple to predict.
FALSE
The organizational world is less complicated than it was 100 years ago.
FALSE
The percentage of households consisting of married couples with their own children is increasing.
FALSE
The ultimate goal of the critical model is emancipation.
TRUE
Hierarchical ordering is a systems principle that implies that the functioning of one component of the system relies on other components of the system.
FALSE
In Weick's view of organizing, responding to highly equivocal information requires the use of assembly rules.
FALSE
In a benevolent-authoritative organization, managers have the explicit goal of exploiting workers.
FALSE
Interorganizational networks describe connections between individuals within a given organization.
FALSE
Organizations today rarely follow Taylor's ideas about fitting the job to the individual.
FALSE
Schein defines culture as an episodic phenomenon.
FALSE
Standpoint feminists believe that remedies for female subordination should come from within the system.
FALSE
Systematic soldiering was Taylor's way of breaking up the social interaction in work groups that often led to slowed production.
FALSE
Taylor's Theory of Scientific Management proposes that the apprenticeship system is the ideal system of job training, as it teaches both job skills and workplace values.
FALSE
Terrorists are less likely than even before to be citizens of the United States.
FALSE
The percentage of the U.S. population ages 15-64 is rapidly declining relative to other countries such as China and Japan.
FALSE
The second level of Schein's model is the "core" assumptions that group members hold about the world and the way it works.
FALSE
The systems approach is prescriptive -- it tells organizations "how to" function.
FALSE
Weber believed that rules are most effective when they are retained flexibly in oral form.
FALSE
It is possible to fulfill one's higher order needs by taking care of other's lower order needs
TRUE
Peters and Waterman, and Deal and Kennedy's conceptualizations of culture are prescriptive.
TRUE
Pfeffer argues that selective hiring is important in successful organizations.
TRUE
Scholars taking a radical-critical approach to power believe that there are inherent contradictions between the "surface structure" of power and the "deep structure" of power.
TRUE
Terrorism has been around for centuries.
TRUE
The Hawthorne Studies were motivated by the classical approach to organizing and led to the human relations approach to organizing.
TRUE
The Hawthorne research team was initially interested in how changes in the work environment would impact the productivity of factory workers.
TRUE
The Hispanic share of the U.S. population has now exceeded the Black share.
TRUE
The dialectic of control suggests that people can free themselves from control by using the same mechanisms that had worked to oppress them.
TRUE
The number of people supervised by a manager is known as his/her span of control.
TRUE
The relational tradition of network analysis was a response to the fact that the organizational chart was not the best representation of communication flow within an organization.
TRUE
The rhetorical model of communication views communication as the practical art of discourse.
TRUE
Theory X and Theory Y involve the assumptions that managers hold about workers.
TRUE
There is a difference between studying organizational culture as something an organization is versus something that it has.
TRUE
A personnel director asking applicants to submit resumes in a particular format would be an example of an assembly rule that assists in sensemaking.
TRUE
According to Deetz, critical scholars should appreciate the irony and contradictions that are always part of organizational life.
TRUE
According to Peters and Waterman, excellent organizations should avoid complex structures and divisions of labor
TRUE
According to the prescriptive approach to culture, successful companies can be identified in terms of their cultures.
TRUE
Blake and Mouton suggest that all managers should adopt a team management approach.
TRUE
Both profit and non-profit organizations increasingly can be characterized as service organizations.
TRUE
Communication in classical organizations is highly formal and standardized.
TRUE
Communication in classical organizations tends to flow vertically through the hierarchy.
TRUE
Communication within a human relations organization tends to be less formal than in an organization run with a classical approach.
TRUE
Control in a System IV organization is exercised at all levels of the organization.
TRUE
Coordinating the interaction between the federal government and local police to deal with a terrorist threat is an organizational communication issue.
TRUE
Critical approaches to organizational communication have their philosophical roots in the work of Karl Marx.
TRUE
Deal and Kennedy argued that business success could be enhanced through the development of a "strong" culture.
TRUE
Equivocality is likely to be high in highly competitive business environments.
TRUE
Ethnographers create mini-theories about an organizations culture that are grounded in observations of a particular organization's culture.
TRUE
Fayol's Theory of Classical Management suggests that organizations will be most effective when central management has control over decision making and employee activities.
TRUE
In alternative approaches to culture, organizational cultures are not thought of as unitary.
TRUE
In the book, Rework, it is argued that there are many ways to reach success in today's business world that defy the typical rules of management textbooks.
TRUE
*In a hegemonic relationship, the controlled group accepts, but does not actively participate in, the control process.
*FALSE
An isolate rarely, if ever, communicates or has relationships with other organizational members.
FALSE
Classical management principles are no longer used in today's organizations.
FALSE
Critical theorists do not consider organizations to be sites of domination.
FALSE
Ethnographic methods differ little from traditional social science techniques.
FALSE
Fayol's Elements of Management provide an accurate description of what managers actually do on the job.
FALSE
Feminist scholars argue that the matriarchal nature of most organizations leads to the marginalization of women.
FALSE
A total quality management approach argues that a team based approach is always best.
FALSE
A traditional approach considers power as a product of communicative interactions and relationships.
FALSE