Organizational Approaches
Open Systems Theory
Classical Theories
The Human Relations Approach
Contingency Theories
100
The 1960's brought nonbureaucratic organizations known as what?
What is street agencies?
100
Systems that do not interact with their environments
What is closed system?
100
This is an adaptation of bureaucracy that has emerged to deal with employees who want more autonomy
What is professional bureaucracies?
100
An approach that supported the classical notion of managerial control
What is human relations approach
100
There is no "one best way" to structure all organizations
What is contingency theory?
200
Alternative programs were deeply committed to what?
What is social change?
200
A system that is capable of responding to changes in the condition of the environment
What is adaptive system?
200
This theory includes high degrees of specialization and impersonality; authority based on comprehensive rules rather than social relationships.
What is bureaucracy?
200
This view of human beings is too narrow to be used in real-life organizations
What is bureaucratic view?
200
Formal rules, a short time horizon, traditional communication channels, and task oriented management
What is stable environment?
300
This theory is based on a notion that organizations replicate the oppression of women by establishing a hierarchical decision making structure.
What is critical and feminist theory?
300
A system that takes in and exports energy through interfaces with the environment
What is open systems?
300
Division of work, authority and responsibility, unity of command, remuneration, and esprit de corps are all functions of what theory?
What is universal management principles?
300
Experiments that served to illuminate the importance of the human element in organizational life
What is Hawthorne Experiments?
300
Formal authority, specialization, and structured channels of communication
What is mechanistic form?
400
A small alternative agency that came into being in response to the difficulties women had in receiving services that were sensitive to their needs.
What is the Illinois collation against sexual assault?
400
When a system tries to maintain itself in a stable, steady state
What is preferred state?
400
In this theory, the founder believed that people could study a work process and determine the best method for the task to be done.
What is scientific management?
400
Mayo and his collogues were involved in these experiments in the 1920s and 1930s
What is Hawthorne plant experiments?
400
The importance of the interaction between the organization and the outside world
What is contingency perspective?
500
Involved clients,community constituency groups, and staff members in ongoing evaluation of services and program renewal
What is empowerment oriented organizations?
500
Changes that affect and are affected by changes in all the other components of the organization
What is structural changes
500
A human service agency designed to be organized so that all employees perform specialized tasks.
What is classical theories in today's human service organizations?
500
Influencer of current concepts as participatory management and empowerment, total quality management, conflict management, and leadership
Who is Mary Parker Follett?
500
An organization that requires a more complex communication pattern
What is unstable environment?
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