SEMINAR 6

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.

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