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I have a Theory
How Stuff Works
I'm in Control
What Does it Mean?
100
He created a popular model of organizational culture
Who is Schein?
100
This theory refers to two different types of managers that are common within organizations
What is McGregor's Theory X and Y?
100
These are the three system components
What are hierarchical ordering, interdependence, and permeability?
100
These are taken for granted assumptions about reality
What are ideologies?
100
This is a means for creating and analyzing maps of relationships in organizations
What is network analysis?
200
He created the theory of classical management
Who is Fayol?
200
This theory concentrates on the micro level of organizational functioning such as the relationship between manager and employee
What is Scientific Management Theory?
200
These are the three aspects of the machine metaphor
What are specialization, predictability, and replaceability/standardization?
200
This is a process where a dominant group leads a minority group to accept subordination as the norm
What is hegemony?
200
This means that there are multiple paths to any outcome within a system
What is equifinality?
300
He believed that there is one best way to do every job
Who is Taylor?
300
This theory includes four different types of organizations within the Human Relations approach
What is Likert's System IV?
300
These are three of the elements of Deal and Kennedy's Strong Cultures
What are rites/rituals, heroes, values, and cultural network?
300
This is how workers exert counterpressure against power and control
What is resistance?
300
This type of management style includes a low concern for people and a low concern for production
What is Impoverished Management?
400
These two scholars created the managerial grid
Who are Blake and Mouton?
400
This theory includes system goals, mechanisms and feedback as its components
What is Cybernetic Systems Theory
400
These are the three levels of Schein's model of organizational culture
What are artifacts/behaviors, values, and basic assumptions?
400
This type of feminist works to deconstruct male-dominated meaning systems in order to highlight women's perspectives
What are postmodern feminists?
400
It's the communication system through which values are instituted and reinforced
What is cultural network?
500
He is most associated with the theory of bureaucracy
Who is Weber?
500
This theory attempts to explain how power relationships can be transformed in team-based organizations
What is Theory of Concertive Control?
500
These are the five needs according to Maslow's hierarchy
What are physiological, safety, esteem, affiliation, and self-actualization?
500
The goal of many critical scholars is to help people who are oppressed to achieve this
What is emancipation?
500
This principle of management proposes that an employee should receive orders regarding a particular task from only one supervisor
What is Unity of command?