Open Systems
This type of system interacts with its environment and exchanges resources and information.
What is an open system?
According to Morgan, organizations are compared to these living things because they must adapt to survive?
What are organisms?
This organizational form combines functional departments with project or product teams.
What is a matrix organization?
This theory explains how the different parts of an organization interact and depend on one another.
What is systems theory?
A company changes how it operates because customer needs have changed. What is this an example of?
What is environmental adaptation?
These are the resources an organization receives, including human, financial, informational, and material resources.
THis concept means a system must be flexible enough to handle changes in its environment.
What is requisite variety?
In a matrix organization, employees may report to a functional manager and this other type of manager.
Who is a project or product manager?
These organizational components define the organization's purpose and direction.
What is the goals and values subsystem?
A company introduces new technology, but teamwork and employee relationships get worse. What does this demonstrate?
Why technological imporvements do not always automatically imporve the workplace.
This concept describes self-regulation and maintaining balance within a system.
What is homeostasis?
This concept explains how an organization can reach the same goal through different methods.
What is equifinality?
Name one potential problem with matrix organizations identified in the presentation.
What are time-consuming meetings, conflicting priorities, or excessive complexibility?
This subsystem transforms inputs into outputs through production and operations.
What is the technical subsystem?
Nike forms a team with employees from marketing, engineering, and finance to launch a new shoe while those employees still report to their department managers. What organizational structure is this?
What is a matrix organization?
Thiss term describes a system losing energy and beginning to break down.
What is entropy?
According to the natural selection section, organizations that cannot adapt to their environment may experience this.
What are decline or failure?
This organizational form uses flexible, project-based teams to support innovation and changing demands.
What is an adhocracy?
This subsystem handles human relationships and motivation within an organization.
What is the psychosocial subsystem?
A company operates in a highly unpredictable environment and needs to innovate quickly. What type of organizational approach would fit this situation?
What is a flexible, innovative structure, such as an adhocracy?
This concept describes how a system receives new energy and resources to continue operating instead of breaking down.
What is negative entropy?
According to the presentation, what two things do organizations need to sustain their existence?
What are adequate resources and the ability to adapt to their environment
What happens when an organization's internal structure does not match the demands of its external environment?
What is incongruence, which can lead to inefficiency and difficulty adapting?
Which subsystem integrates and controls the other organizational subsystems?
What is the managerial subsystem
An organization has too many rules and layers of management, causing it to respond slowly to market changes. What does this illustrate in the congruency framework?
What is incongruence, or a mismatch between the organization's structure and its environment?