Chapter 4 and 5

Read the book first carefully, and then find the answer. Please read and do carefully. Thanks!
1. Chapter 4 describes two versions of the systems approach. Which version understands change as a major component of organizational life?

A. ”New science” of systems theory

B. General systems theory

C. Cultural perspective

D. Weick’s model

2. We can understand Karl Weick’s model of organizing as related to both systems theory and a cultural approach to organizations due to its focus on ______.

A. Collective sense-making

B. Rationality

C. Power and control

D. Linear thinking

3. What is the metaphor provided for the study of organizations in the cultural approach?

A. Culture

B. Machine

C. Organism

D. Organization

4. A major way the cultural approach to organizations differs from the previous approaches we’ve studied is that the cultural approach takes _____ seriously in relation to organizations.

A. communication

B. hierarchy

C. bureaucracy

D. environment

5. Which approach to organizational culture understands organizations to have multiple subcultures?

A. purist

B. pragmatist

C. cultural

D. ideological