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.Management Sciences
Category: Groups and Organizations
The number of intonational non-governmental from less than 200 at the start of the twentieth century to how many in 2006 ?
A. 5,164
B. 8,898
C. 51,509
D. 123,305
Who is most closely associated with the view that the equal and impartial treatment of each case is a strength of bureaucracies ?
A. Michel Foucault
B. Paul Gay
C. Zygmunt Bauman
D. Robert Michels
Paul du Gay’s (2000) In Praise of Bureaucracy makes two important points in defense of bureaucratic forms of organization Which two points are they? A bureaucratic ethos ?
A. is compatible with private sector values and includes impartial and equal treatment for all
B. ensures administrative responsibility for the public interest and includes impartial and equal treatment for all
C. ensures that politicians goals can be met even against opposition and ensures administrative responsibility for the public interest
D. is compatible with private sector values and ensures that politicians goals can be met even against opposition
The purpose of a reference group is to serve a(n) ?
A. normative function by enforcing standards of conduct and belief
B. comparison function by serving as a standard against which people can measure themselves and other
C. elimination function by dissolving groups that no longer have a social purpose
D. both a and b
Which of these is a feature of the Japanese style of management arrangements ?
A. merging of work and private lives
B. job security
C. group-oriented production
D. all of the above
__________ groups often emerge in the workplace among those who share special understandings about their occupation ?
A. primary
B. secondary
C. out-groups
D. formal organizations
The iron law of oligarchy refers to_____________?
A. regimes that use repression against their population
B. the exclusion of women from the highest levels of politics
C. the tendency for power inevitably to flow towards top
D. the legal system of the former communist countries
Which of the following have expressed particular concern about the longevity of union leaders who are not always responsive to the needs and demands of membership ?
A. functionalists
B. conflict theorists
C. interactionists
D. classical theorists
Who thought that within organizations there exists an iron law of oligarchy ?
A. Max Weber
B. Zygmunt Bauman
C. Michel Foucault
D. Robert Michel’s
The destructive consequences of tensions between in-groups and out-groups are stressed by ?
A. functionalists
B. conflict theorists
C. interactionists
D. classical theorists
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