CBAD 290-Kendall Hunt Hw questions
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Using past experiences to guide our decision making at work can be a faulty, unreliable method. - correct
answer ✔✔True
Which influential social scientist once said "There's nothing so practical as a good theory"? - correct
answer ✔✔Kurt Lewin
The formal term for a "real world" setting is - correct answer ✔✔applied setting
A system of concepts with indications of the relationships among them that help us to understand a
phenomenon is the definition of: - correct answer ✔✔formal, scholarly theory
A useful theory helps its user describe, explain, predict and control. - correct answer ✔✔True
More than one theory can explain the same phenomenon. - correct answer ✔✔True
What kind of theories of organizing helped companies cope with the new modes of working associated
with the Industrial Revolution. - correct answer ✔✔Classical
Max Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy is an example of: - correct answer ✔✔Systems Theory
The machine metaphor is most closely associated with: - correct answer ✔✔Classical Theory
The Hawthorne Studies led to a new classification of theories about organizing, called: - correct answer
✔✔Humanistic Theory
, Which organizational theory is concerned with inputs, throughputs, and outputs? - correct answer
✔✔Systems Theory
It is difficult to change an organization's culture if the change you want to make is different than the
vision held by senior leadership or management. - correct answer ✔✔True
"What characterizes life in a particular organization?" is a question explored in theories of: - correct
answer ✔✔Organizational Culture
If we were doing an organizational cultural analysis of Apple, Steve Jobs would emerge as a(n) - correct
answer ✔✔Hero
Laid back meetings, long lunch breaks, lots of water cooler talk, and pets in the office are all indicators
of: - correct answer ✔✔Organizational Culture
Excellent cultures spend more time planning, discussing, and analyzing that weak, ineffective
organizational cultures. - correct answer ✔✔False
Permeable boundaries enable an organization to: - correct answer ✔✔Function as a relatively open
system
Open systems are made possible by - correct answer ✔✔Permeable boundaries
Critics claimed that, of the two Humanistic theories, the Human Resources approach didn't do enough to
emphasize organizational goals and needs. - correct answer ✔✔False
Systems theory says that when working as part of an organization we develop ________, or the idea that
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - correct answer ✔✔Synergy
Listening to the metaphors people use to describe their jobs, such as "I feel like I work in a dungeon,"
represents one way to analyze - correct answer ✔✔Organizational Culture
and correct answers A+ rated
Using past experiences to guide our decision making at work can be a faulty, unreliable method. - correct
answer ✔✔True
Which influential social scientist once said "There's nothing so practical as a good theory"? - correct
answer ✔✔Kurt Lewin
The formal term for a "real world" setting is - correct answer ✔✔applied setting
A system of concepts with indications of the relationships among them that help us to understand a
phenomenon is the definition of: - correct answer ✔✔formal, scholarly theory
A useful theory helps its user describe, explain, predict and control. - correct answer ✔✔True
More than one theory can explain the same phenomenon. - correct answer ✔✔True
What kind of theories of organizing helped companies cope with the new modes of working associated
with the Industrial Revolution. - correct answer ✔✔Classical
Max Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy is an example of: - correct answer ✔✔Systems Theory
The machine metaphor is most closely associated with: - correct answer ✔✔Classical Theory
The Hawthorne Studies led to a new classification of theories about organizing, called: - correct answer
✔✔Humanistic Theory
, Which organizational theory is concerned with inputs, throughputs, and outputs? - correct answer
✔✔Systems Theory
It is difficult to change an organization's culture if the change you want to make is different than the
vision held by senior leadership or management. - correct answer ✔✔True
"What characterizes life in a particular organization?" is a question explored in theories of: - correct
answer ✔✔Organizational Culture
If we were doing an organizational cultural analysis of Apple, Steve Jobs would emerge as a(n) - correct
answer ✔✔Hero
Laid back meetings, long lunch breaks, lots of water cooler talk, and pets in the office are all indicators
of: - correct answer ✔✔Organizational Culture
Excellent cultures spend more time planning, discussing, and analyzing that weak, ineffective
organizational cultures. - correct answer ✔✔False
Permeable boundaries enable an organization to: - correct answer ✔✔Function as a relatively open
system
Open systems are made possible by - correct answer ✔✔Permeable boundaries
Critics claimed that, of the two Humanistic theories, the Human Resources approach didn't do enough to
emphasize organizational goals and needs. - correct answer ✔✔False
Systems theory says that when working as part of an organization we develop ________, or the idea that
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. - correct answer ✔✔Synergy
Listening to the metaphors people use to describe their jobs, such as "I feel like I work in a dungeon,"
represents one way to analyze - correct answer ✔✔Organizational Culture
