week 6 pt 2

Question 1

Rationality

Answer 1

Attempt to teach max efficiency

Question 2

Bureaucracy

Answer 2

A specific type of large formal organizations that attempts to maximize efficiency by establishing formal relations, clear, procedures and stated goals

Question 3

Weber ideal

Answer 3

Ideal type of bureaucracy characteristics (Weber)
Division of labor based in technical competence
-administrative hierarchy
-formal rules/regulations
-impersonal relationships
-emphasis on rationality and efficiency
-provision of life long careers

Question 4

Bureaucracies have

Answer 4

An informal structured unwritten rules and relationships

Question 5

Individuals in bureaucracies

Answer 5

Some categories of people faces spread challenges in bureaucracies

• professionals may have conflicting loyalities to their profession and to the bureaucratic organization
• members of miniority groups have little opportunity for social media

Question 6

Organization the social org-culture

Answer 6

Have a culture 
Organizations structures and practices are likely to follow 
-prevailing rules 
-beliefs 
-customs

Question 7

Organizations

Answer 7

Perpetuate/mitigate

• cognitive biases
• discrimintation
• inequality

Question 8

Maintain class,gender, racial inequalities - how do organizations create/maintain inequality?

Answer 8

Organizations loosely interrelated practices, processes, actions, and meanings

Question 9

How do organizations reduce biases and the influences of social networks

Answer 9

Merit based procedures for recruitment hiring, rewarding workers

Question 10

Merit-based procedures use

Answer 10

Comprehensive job relevant info and are not relying on stereotypes for making decisions

Question 11

Castillo 2008 study

Answer 11

Found that in pay and promotion decisions within a highly formalized from
evaluation stage:
there is no race /sex differences in merit evaluations by managers
Award stage: there was significant white male advantages in the size of salary increases awarded

Question 12

Why the difference? Between evaluation and award stages

Answer 12

Absence of bias of the evaluation stages is caused by the combination of

• formal merit evaluations
• managerial accountability
• transparency in merit ranking process

Question 13

Award stage

Answer 13

Bias enters at the salary award stage because managerial decisions are not visible to other employees

Question 14

Organizations-reducing biases

Answer 14

Not relying on referrals have more open recruitment

Having formal grievance channels and related diversity programs

Question 15

Organizations with supportive cultures are more likely to

Answer 15

Reduce perceptions and experiences of discriminations

• reduce likelihood of legal action
• increase a merit-based organizations