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Chapter 5: Organizations, Societies, and Global Relationships
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of these is an example of a highly rational organization?
A. a dyad
B. a group
C. a community
D. a bureaucracy
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Both a university and Walmart exemplify which of these?
A. organizations
B. corporations
C. dyads
D. bureaucracies
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Commonplace general collectives purposely constructed to achieve particular ends in society are called which of these?
A. bureaucracies
B. organizations
C. authorities
D. dominations
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Organizations
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Jerry wants to build a model of society that includes comparative-historical facts and all the possible characteristics of a society. Jerry’s idea is very close to which of these?
A. Robert Merton’s idea of unintended consequences
B. Karl Marx’s idea of alienation
C. Émile Durkheim’s idea of anomie
D. Max Weber’s idea of ideal type
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Bureaucracies
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. According to Max Weber, a(n) ______ is a model in which the degree of rationality is greatly exaggerated.
A. prototype
B. ideal type
C. real type
D. model type
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Bureaucracies
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Jonathan is very stern with his employees who follow every command he gives to them. Which of these does Jonathan exemplify?
A. weak domination
B. strong domination
C. rational-legal authority
D. strong subordination
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Max Weber’s three different types of authority differ from each other in which of these ways?
A. by the type of domination the authorities represent
B. by what makes the authority legitimate
C. by how many people are subject to the authority
D. by how peaceful or violent people are when faced with the authority
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. A popular professor exemplifies which type of authority?
A. traditional
B. rational-legal
C. charismatic
D. domination
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The Catholic pope exemplifies which type of authority?
A. traditional
B. rational-legal
C. charismatic
D. domination
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. A U.S. senator exemplifies which type of authority?
A. traditional
B. rational-legal
C. charismatic
D. domination
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. What is the only type of authority associated with bureaucracy?
A. traditional
B. rational-legal
C. charismatic
D. domination
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. The fact that the rationality of a bureaucratic organization is limited by the instabilities and conflicts that exist in most organizations is referred to as which of these?
A. rational-legal rationality
B. charismatic rationality
C. technical rationality
D. bounded rationality
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which of these is a problem in bureaucracies where numerous rules often slow progress or increase the amount or complexity of work?
A. red tape
B. the Peter principle
C. bounded rationality
D. informationalism
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which of these best describes Parkinson’s law?
A. The more a bureaucracy tries to be efficient, the more forms there are to fill out.
B. Never underestimate the power of the secretary.
C. Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence.
D. Work expands to fill the available time.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Joan calls a computer company for assistance and is transferred to several people. After she is on the phone for 30 additional minutes, she is disconnected. What has Joan just experienced?
A. the Peter principle
B. red tape
C. legal-rational authority
D. Parkinson’s law
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Peter works in a college office. He spends most of his day sending back forms to students when they have filled a form out incorrectly, even when it contains all the information needed to complete the task. Peter has a ______ personality.
A. charismatic
B. traditional
C. bureaucratic
D. tedious
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Daniel works for a company where, contrary to what the employee handbook says, employees ask each other for guidance in certain situations rather than ask their supervisors. This company is an example of a(n) ______ organization.
A. informal
B. formal
C. collegial
D. ideal
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Informal Organization
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. When a country is ruled by a small group of people at the top who exercise a great deal of power, often illegitimately obtained, it is termed which of these?
A. capitalist dictatorship
B. informal bureaucracy
C. oligarchy
D. democracy
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Informal Organization
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Which of these is a modern change in bureaucracy?
A. informal organizations
B. gendered organizations
C. rational authority
D. anomic organizations
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Contemporary Organizational Realities
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. When a man works in a female-dominated organization, they may find themselves promoted past equally competent, or even more competent, women. What is the term to describe this phenomenon?
A. glass cage
B. glass elevator
C. glass ceiling
D. glass escalator
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Women face the ______, in which they cannot get promoted past a certain level in bureaucratic organizations despite their qualifications.
A. glass cage
B. glass elevator
C. glass ceiling
D. glass escalator
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Both Amy and Jeff are staff assistants for a large organization. Amy works in a segment that predominately employs women, while Jeff works in a segment that predominately employs men. Jeff has more promotion opportunities than Amy even though they hold the same title and work for the same company. Amy’s experience is most exemplified by which of these concepts?
A. glass cage
B. glass elevator
C. glass ceiling
D. glass escalator
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Janelle and several of her professional female friends were recently asked to become members of a board of directors of an organization that was in financial trouble. The organization had to declare bankruptcy and all three women found themselves in a precarious position in their professional careers as they dealt with the organizational fallout. Which of these terms may be applicable in this scenario?
A. glass cage
B. glass cliff
C. glass ceiling
D. glass escalator
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Sexual harassment can consist of many types of unwanted sexual attention such as jokes, remarks, or sexual advances, but to be illegal which of these must occur?
A. It must come from a high-ranking man to a lower ranking woman.
B. It must be offensive not just to the victim but to the workplace culture.
C. It must be recurrent or severe enough to create a hostile workplace.
D. It must directly influence someone’s pay or promotion.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Other Problems
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Which of these is a contemporary change in bureaucracies according to your text?
A. upsizing
B. insourcing
C. inflexibility
D. outsourcing
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Contemporary Changes
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Juan fills out his own tax form, printing his postage from home. Which of these terms is best applied to Juan?
A. producer
B. prosumer
C. employee
D. bureaucrat
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Contemporary Changes
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Companies who use offshore outsourcing for customer service calls for U.S. customers often ask employees to engage in “national identity management.” What does this mean?
A. Employees are supposed to help to educate customers about their home country.
B. Employees are supposed to adopt accents that sound trustworthy to people in the United States.
C. Employees are supposed to cross-market products to customers.
D. Employees are supposed to pose as Americans on calls, using adopted U.S. hometowns and Americanized names.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Call center work in India is an example of which of these?
A. downsizing
B. offshore outsourcing
C. informationalism
D. McDonaldization
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
29.Which country is the most popular outsourcing location?
A. Mexico
B. China
C. India
D. the United States
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. Donald Trump advocated for the decrease of offshore operations and bringing companies back to the United States. What is this called?
A. downsizing
B. offshore outsourcing
C. backsourcing
D. McDonaldization
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. The network organization came into existence during which decade?
A. 1960s
B. 1970s
C. 1980s
D. 1990s
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Network Organizations
Difficulty Level: Easy
32. Which of these is a characteristic of a network organization?
A. vertical structure
B. clear boundaries
C. authoritarian decision-making
D. flexible production
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Characteristics of the Network Organization
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Network systems have transformed which of these according to your text?
A. gender roles
B. the nature of work
C. sexuality
D. religious practices
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Characteristics of the Network Organization
Difficulty Level: Easy
34. Which of these describes the knowledge and information linkages between factories and companies?
A. knowledge inferential
B. information sourcing
C. informationalism
D. intelligence systems
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Informationalism
Difficulty Level: Easy
35. A ______ is a complex pattern of social relationships that is bounded in space and persists over time.
A. society
B. social structure
C. bureaucracy
D. hierarchy
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. Ferdinand Toennies differentiated between two types of societies: ______, or a traditional society characterized by face-to-face relations, and ______, characterized by impersonal, distant, and limited social relationships.
A. gemeinschaft; gesellschaft
B. gesellschaft; gemeinschaft
C. postmodern; premodern
D. modern; postmodern
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
37. Which sociologist differentiated between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies?
A. Émile Durkheim
B. Robert Merton
C. Ferdinand Toennies
D. Manuel Castells
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. People who live in a large city, such as Los Angeles, may feel a sense of being disconnected from each other. Which term characterizes this phenomenon?
A. gemeinschaft society
B. informationalism
C. gesellschaft society
D. risk society
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. Nikita lives in a small village in rural Russia, where everyone knows everyone else. The people of Nikita’s village base their relationships on familiarity and closeness. What type of society does Nikita live in?
A. risk society
B. industrial society
C. gemeinschaft society
D. gesellschaft society
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. As a leading ______ theorist, Talcott Parsons had a(n) ______ view of macro-level societies.
A. symbolic interaction; constructionist
B. conflict; negative
C. structural functionalist; positive
D. ethnomethodologist; dismissive
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
41. What does it mean to say we are a “risk society?”
A. Our main issue is risk and how to minimize or prevent it.
B. We take more risks than we have in the past.
C. We are more anxious of risks than we have been in the past.
D. Globally, societies have begun to take risks for other societies.
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. The Irish are an example of a ______, as they are a large group of people who are linked through common descent.
B. state
C. race
D. nation
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Global Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. What is the term for the fluid, irregular, and variable global flows that produce different results throughout the world?
A. landscapes
B. globules
C. glo-flows
D. gesellschaft societies
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Landscapes
Difficulty Level: Easy
44.Which “scape” could be associated with an influx of undocumented immigrants to the United States?
A. ethnoscape
B. financescape
C. mediascapes
D. ideoscapes
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Landscapes
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. Which of these defines the main difference between Microsoft and Linux?
A. One is proprietary and only people at the company work on it; the other one is open-source and anyone in the world can contribute to it.
B. One is only sold in the United States and the other one is sold globally.
C. One can be used on any device and the other one only works on laptops.
D. One is priced for individual use and the other one is only for commercial use.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: More Open Organizations?
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. Sociologically speaking, Google is an example of an organization.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. According to Max Weber, bureaucracies are always rational organizations.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Max Weber created ideal types to model how social phenomena regularly operate.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Bureaucracies
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Domination is the likelihood that commands will be obeyed by subordinates.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. The mayor of New York City is someone who rules by traditional authority.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. David Koresh led the Branch Davidian cult. Koresh was known for his outgoing personality and ability to gather people into his fold. Max Weber would characterize Koresh’s leadership as “rational-legal.”
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The military exemplifies the term bounded rationality because it is highly rational within its boundaries.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
8.Most research shows that only one type of bureaucracy exists, and it directly mirrors Max Weber’s ideal type.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Parkinson’s law can be summarized as “employees tend to rise to the level of their incompetence.”
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. A customer service agent more interested in obtaining a customer's Social Security number than helping them resolve an issue can be said to have a bureaucratic personality.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Rationality and Irrationality
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Most bureaucratic organizations become oligarchical.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Informal Organization
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Formal organizations often arise to take care of problems and failures in informal organizations.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Informal Organization
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Max Weber’s ideal type bureaucracy included gender discrimination.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Theories of double-paned glass ceilings are based on studies of U.S. organizations and are unlikely to apply globally.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. The glass escalator describes the process by which women in traditionally male-typed jobs are likely to be promoted.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Globally speaking, sexual harassment occurs primarily in the United States.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Other Problems
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Sexual harassment consists of unwanted sexual attention, such as sexually oriented remarks and jokes, advances, and requests that take place in the workplace or in other settings.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Other Problems
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Instead of bureaucracy growing like Max Weber predicted, it has shown a tendency to decrease.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Contemporary Changes
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. The transfer of activities once performed by one organization to another organization in exchange for money is known as outsourcing.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Contemporary Changes
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. India is an attractive place for call centers to locate because of its lack of traditional gender norms.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Backsourcing is a process whereby companies assemble pieces of products in different countries.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. McDonaldization is most important at the local rather than the larger organizational level.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: McDonaldization and Bureaucratic Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. A franchise system combines a small business with a large bureaucratic organization.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: McDonaldization and Bureaucratic Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. eBayization is a process that enlists all the basic dimensions of McDonaldization except that it includes variety.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: McDonaldization and Bureaucratic Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Networks are marked by the hierarchical decision-making of very few people.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Network Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Informationalism has been responsible for the emergence of a global information economy.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Network Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Globalization is the major reason why there are far greater risks to society than ever before.
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Most societies have characteristics of both gesellschaft and gemeinschaft societies.
Learning Objective: 5.3: Contrast gemeinschaft and gesellschaft societies.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. In a risk society, the central issue is how to achieve equality by joining the population together.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Societies
Difficulty Level: Hard
30. Some of the most important and most obvious barriers to global flows are those constructed by nation-states, but nation-states have been losing control over global flows.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Controlling Global Flows and Mobilities
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Max Weber identified bureaucracy as an ideal type. Define bureaucracy and discuss three of its components. Address what Max Weber meant by the term ideal type.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Organizations
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Identify and explain the characteristics of the three types of authority in Max Weber’s theory of authority. What differentiates the types of authority? Give an example of each type.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Describe the features of bureaucracies and informal organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Authority Structures and Bureaucracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. According to gendered organization theorists, there are many ways that bureaucracies do not treat all workers--especially women workers--equally. Provide two of the reasons that the text presents to support this assertion.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Discuss challenges that arise in contemporary organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gender Inequalities
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Discuss the concept of landscapes according to Arjun Appadurai and list three types of landscapes.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Landscapes
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. The text suggests that organizations that seek to control global flows face competition from organizations that are fluid and open. What is meant by this? Provide an example of competition between a traditional and open organization. Give one example of criteria that limit the effects of openness.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Describe global social organization and global flows.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: More Open Organizations?
Difficulty Level: Medium