Organization size, life cycle, and decline

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Name organization life cycle's.

1. Entrepreneurial stage (crisis: need for leadership)

2. Collectivity stage (crisis: Need for delegation)

3. Formalization stage (crisis: too much red tape)

4. Elaboration stage (crisis: Need for revitalization)

Organizations need systems for guiding and controlling the organization. Which three types are available?

- Bureaucratic control

- Market control

- Clan control

A useful way to think about organizational growth and change is the concept of an organizational?

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Rules and procedures, specialization and division of labor, hierarchy of authority, technically qualified personnel, separate position from position holder and written communication and records are part of?

Weber's dimensions of bureaucracy

What was developed to maintain the efficiency and control benefits of bureaucracy yet prevent the problem of slow response to crises.

The incident command system

What are the three factors that can cause organizational decline?

1) Organizational atrophy
2) Vulnerability
3) environmental decline or competition.

What are the three techniques that can help smooth down the downsizing process?

1) communicate more, not less
2)provide assistance to displaced workers
3) help the survivors thrive.

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