Practice
- A highly structured group formed for the purpose of completing certain tasks or achieving specific goals.
Answer: Formal Organization
- Organizations that people join because they perceive their goals as being socially or morally worthwhile.
Answer: Normative Organization
- Organizations that people typically are forced into against their will.
Answer: Coercive Organizations
- Organizations that people typically join because of some tangible benefit which they expect to receive.
Answer: Utilitarian Organizations
- An organizational model characterized by a hierarchy of authority, a clear division of labor, explicit rules and procedures, and impersonality in personnel matters.
Answer: Bureaucracy
- An abstract model that describes the recurring characteristics of some phenomenon.
Answer: Ideal Type
- A process that occurs in organiza¬tions when the rules become an end in themselves rather than a means to an end, and organizational survival becomes more important than achievement of goals.
Answer: Goal Displacement
