Describe voluntary associations using types of power

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Question: 1. Taylor (in chapter 22) and Follett (in chapter 23) have contrasting views of control. Describe each approach, and the conditions under which each is more likely to be effective.

2. Is Theory X or Theory Y a more accurate theory of human behavior? Explain. Contrast bureaucratic and relational organizational forms in terms of implicit assumptions and applications of Theory X and Y.

3. Is a bureaucratic approach to control compatible with a relational approach to coordination, and vice versa? (Why or why not?) Is it legitimate to use culture to achieve control? (Why or why not?)

4. How can employee loyalty be enhanced through organizational culture? Through a bureaucratic organizational culture? Through a relational organizational culture? How does employee loyalty enhance organizational effectiveness?

5. Describe voluntary associations using (Etzioni's) types of power/organizations. What is the iron law of oligarchy? Why is it such a common feature of voluntary organizations?

6. What are some of the potential negative and positive outcomes of organizational conflict? What are some of the factors that determine whether conflict results in primarily negative or positive outcomes?

7. What are the advantages of the relational organizational form for learning and change? Advantages of the bureaucratic organizational form? How would you combine these organizational forms in an organization to promote organizational learning and change?
8. What are the benefits and challenges of diversity in organizations? In what ways might the likelihood of these be related to organizational structures and environments?

9. Explain various ways that new technologies can impact self-identity and self-development. How might the expansion of diversity at the individual level alter the definition and meaning of diversity at the societal levels? What impact might more fluid identities and expanded conceptualizations of diversity have on organizational conflict?

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