Chapter 2 Flashcards
1
Q
transformation of inputs to outputs
A
system
2
Q
system that transforms resources [into] additional resources
A
Organization
3
Q
internal linkages in transformation process
A
Subsystems
4
Q
influences outputs have on inputs
A
Feedback
5
Q
“classical” views that emphasized a single appropriate form of organization and management, toward more recent approaches that reject this “one best way” concept
A
system metaphor
6
Q
founder of systems theory
A
David Easton
7
Q
pioneer of managerial analysis in the scientific management school
A
Fredrick Taylor
8
Q
- systemic analysis of tasks
- workers selected to maximize output
- pay as the primary reward
- stress specialization
- time motion study
- impersonal
A
scientific management
9
Q
founder of organizational sociology
A
Max Weber
10
Q
movement toward legal and rational forms of authority absent tradition (monarchical power) or charisma
A
bureaucracy
