Name That Scholar
This scholar focused on efficiency and finding the "one best way."
Who is Frederick Taylor/Frank & Lillian Gilbreth's
This metaphor emphasizes efficiency, standardization, and predictability.
What are organizations as machines?
The last step in strategic management.
What is a strategic plan?
The location of decision-making authority within an organization.
What is centralization?
The discipline from which organizational theory originated.
Sociology
This scholar developed bureaucracy.
Who is Max Weber?
This metaphor focuses on adaptation and survival.
What are organizations as organisms?
Mission, vision, values, and priorities belong to this component of strategy.
What is strategic direction?
The geographic dispersion of an organization.
What is spatial differentiation?
The historical development that led to the emergence of organizational theory.
What is rapid industrialization and growth of large organizations?
This scholar focused on efficiency and finding the "one best way."
Who is Frederick Taylor & Frank & Lillian Gilbreth?
This metaphor focuses on information processing and learning.
What are organizations as brains?
Name the five components of SMART goals.
What are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound?
Specialization and departmentalization are examples of this type of differentiation.
What is horizontal differentiation?
Organizational theory studies organizations from this perspective.
What is a macro perspective?
This scholar focused on management and coordination.
Who is Henri Fayol?
The All Blacks' tradition of sweeping the shed represents this metaphor.
What are organizations as cultures?
A type of an environmental analysis organizations might conduct.
SWOT Analysis
Organizational structure consists of complexity, formalization, and _____.
What is centralization?
One major criticism of classical organizational theory.
What is that organizations were viewed as closed systems?
Which scholar believed organizations should resemble government and legal institutions?
Who is Max Weber?
This metaphor argues conflict is inevitable in organizations.
What are organizations as political systems?
These goals are broad, long-term, and often communicate legitimacy.
What are official goals?
The number of hierarchical levels in an organization.
What is vertical differentiation?
The five key elements that define an organization.
1. Social entity 2. Involvement in the sport industry 3. Goal directed focus 4. Consciously structured activity system; 5. Identifiable boundary