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Who you calling modern?
Target or Walmart?
Biodome, basically
Theorists notice people have souls
Theory Potpourri
100
When an organization has standardization of products, Large economies of scale and stable, stable, lifetime employment, we would classify it as what type of organization?
What is Fordist?
100
This method involves immersing one’s self for an extended period of time within a culture as to become familiar with the sensemaking methods of others.
What is ethnography?
100
Students who are working interdependently in teams can become more creative and better problem solvers than students who work individually. They have engaged in what principle?
What is holism?
100
According to McGregor, this type of authority is founded primarily on coercion of employees?
What is Managerial Authority?
100
This term defines the difference between the value of labor power and the actual value produced by the laborer.
What is surplus value?
200
According to Beiler (2013)Beiler, this term is used to describe workers with insecure positions. Due to globalization and outsourcing, this group is left without a secure work-based identity
What is The Precariat
200
You are hired by a company that immediately sets you up with a peer mentor to explain to you the structured expectations of the organization, and socialize you into the culture?
What is the Pragmatic Approach?
200
This definition is a measure of the relative degree of disorder that exists within a system at a given moment in time.
What is Entropy?
200
According to the article, Knowledge Management, Tolerance of Ambiguity and Productivity, this phenomenon influences workers’ productivity as supervisor’s pay more attention to them
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
200
The research goals of prediction and control, generalizable knowledge claims, and being able to establish causal relationships represent this perspective
What is the Functionalist perspective?
300
John enjoyed working as a graphic designer at the company that he currently worked for, but saw that there was another tech company that provided a wider creative space for growth. John is considered this type of worker.
What is a no-collar worker?
300
Miguel Helft, writes about Steve Jobs, describing him as “a visionary inventor whose ideas and products reshaped industries." Miguel also acknowledges the social reality created by Jobs’ biographies and their effect on the post-Jobs cultural environment. What concept connects to biographies and the construction of social reality?
What is Organizational Storytelling?
300
Organizations receive information from multiple environmental sources and must make constant adjustments to maintain this...
What is Homeostasis?
300
Follett's conception of conflict resolution that moves beyond compromise towards a win-win.
What is Integration?
300
This person is widely regarded as the founder of organizational communication.
Who is W. Charles Redding?
400
Fordist organizations focus on bureaucratic and direct control while Post-Fordist organizations focus on this type of control.
What is "disciplinary control"?
400
This approach believes that culture is not something an organization has or possess, rather an organization IS a culture.
What is the Purist Approach
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Consult with your group on how much you want to wager?
Name three of the seven properties of Karl Weick's theory of sensemaking.
400
Douglas McGregor formulated a model based on his examination of the way people behave in the workplace. Of the two models, he has concluded that “_______” situates work as providing the possibility for human growth and the realization of higher needs of esteem and self-actualization.
What is Theory Y?
400
This is the term for a "theory about theories?"
What is a metatheoretical framework?
500
These are workers who create ideas and knowledge and find ways to transform them into branded, marketable products. The term, described by Robert Reich, is related to no-collar work.
What are Symbol Manipulators?
500
This type of cultural expression symbolically marks significant moments in organizations and the lives of their members, such as a graduation ceremony or getting married.
What are rites and rituals?
500
The ability of a system to reach multiple goals and states from the same initial conditions and inputs?
What is Multifinality
500
The idea of this concept is to capture the ongoing, dynamic, and ever-changing character of the interactions amongst people.
What is Circular Response?
500
A history professor is preparing for a lesson for his class by analyzing the modes of production different ancient societies used. What historical approach is he using?
What is historical materialism?