Quiz Robbins and Barnwell OTD Exam Questions Correct Answers Current Update (Verified A+ Pass)
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Quiz Robbins and Barnwell OTD Exam Questions Correct Answers Current Update (Verified A+ Pass)
Organisation design - Answers - the construction and change of an organization's structure (facilitating attainment of goals)
Organisation theory: - Answers - discipline that studies the structure a...
Quiz Robbins and Barnwell OTD Exam
Questions Correct Answers Current
Update (Verified A+ Pass)
Organisation design - Answers -✔✔ the construction and change of an organization's
structure (facilitating attainment of goals)
Organisation theory: - Answers -✔✔ discipline that studies the structure and design of
organizations.
Organisational behaviour: - Answers -✔✔ a field of study that investigates the impact of
individuals and small-group factors on employee performance and attitudes (macro-
perspective, broader definition of organisational effectiveness)
Systems perspective - Answers -✔✔ view organisation as a system which interacts
with its environment in a repetitive cycle of
events
Life-cycle perspective - Answers -✔✔ views organization as a living organism which
has a pattern of predictable change through which the organisation moves from start-up
to dissolution. Organization does not necessarily do all stages.
Positivism: - Answers -✔✔ an assumption that the world may be known and improved
by extending knowledge through research
Normative - Answers -✔✔ theories that apply across a wide range of situations
Critical theory - Answers -✔✔ an approach to studying organisations which
concentrates on their perceived shortcomings and deficiencies.
Postmodernism: - Answers -✔✔ an approach to studying organizations, which
emerged from European philosophical origins and reject traditional approaches to
studying organisations.
Division of labour: - Answers -✔✔ functional specialization; job broken down into
simple and repetitive tasks
Scientific Management - Answers -✔✔ movement initiated by Frederick Taylor to
achieve production efficiencies by systematising and standardising jobs to achieve the
'one best way' they should be done.
, Rational planning perspective - Answers -✔✔ a model of organisation based upon the
development of clear goals and plans to achieve those goals, by Ralph Davis.
Paradign proliferation - Answers -✔✔ (1980-present): the emergence of a number of
new frameworks with which to view organisations.
SYmbolic interpretive perspective - Answers -✔✔ (from 1980s): view the organisation
as a social construct
Enactment - Answers -✔✔ a process where structures and processes take from
through the actions of individuals.
Organizational effectiveness - Answers -✔✔ degree to which an organization attains its
short- and long-term goals, the selection of which reflects strategic constituencies, the
self-interest of the evaluator and the life stage of the organization.
Goal-attainment approach - Answers -✔✔ an organisation's effectiveness is judged in
terms of whether it achieves its goals
Systems approach - Answers -✔✔ evaluating an organisation's effectiveness by its
ability to acquire inputs, channel the outputs
and maintain stability and balance (focus on the way how to goals are achieved).
Strategic constituencies approach - Answers -✔✔ an organization's effectiveness is
determined by how successfully it satisfies
the demands of those constituencies in its environment from which it requires support
for its continued existence.
Balanced scorecard - Answers -✔✔ seeks to balance the various demands on the
organisation with its capabilities.
Problem of balanced scorecard - Answers -✔✔ When things get measured that do not
matter it is a bad system
− What is important changes over time
− Takes a benign view of the environment
Problems of systems approach - Answers -✔✔ Measurability and issue of the means
really matters?
Problem of goal attainment approach - Answers -✔✔ Who's goals do we follow,
Difference between officially stated goals and actual goals, Multiple
goals can compete with each other, When is a goal achieved, Which goal is most
important?, Goals do not direct behaviour
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