SEMINAR 6
Across
- 1. One of the problems of matrix structures that can be solved by ensuring equal power dimensions and dynamics for decision making.
- 5. This organisational structure combines the traditional departments seen in functional structures with project teams.
- 7. The degree to which a group is especially attractive to its members
- 8. One of the requirements of an effective team.
- 9. The degree to which tasks in the organisation are subdivided into separate jobs.
- 11. A focus on rationality and rationalism: use of scientific reason and positivism, using logical argument and reasoning
- 14. This theory's basic premise is that specific and difficult goals, with self-generated feedback, lead to higher performance
- 17. A type of culture that reinforces personal responsibility and accountability.
- 20. Is a system that outlines how certain activities are directed in order to achieve the goals of an organization.
- 21. A stage in Tuckman's Five-stage theory that deals with defining leadership, roles and responsibilities.
Down
- 2. A culture that emphasises achievement, results, and action as important values.
- 3. This theory suggests that people gauge the fairness of their work outcomes in relation to others - insiders and outsiders called referents.
- 4. A type of work teams
- 6. Defined as the underlying beliefs, assumptions, values and ways of interacting that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization.
- 10. Split of work between work and home on certain days.
- 12. One of the big five personality traits.
- 13. Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which that person belongs - a prevalent and often useful, if not always accurate, generalisation.
- 15. The concentration of control of an activity or organisation under a single authority.
- 16. One of the problems of matrix structures suggests that managers in a matrix can succumb to excessive internal preoccupation and lose touch with the marketplace.
- 18. All ... are groups, but not all groups have to be ....
- 19. Principles or standards of behaviour; one's judgement of what is important in life