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CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON TOMORROWS ORGANIZATIONS

Management gurus Peter Drucker and Tom Peters both agree that tomorrow's organizations are
going to be flatter, less hierarchical, and more decentralized. In a word, they are going to be more
adhocratic. Whether Drucker and Peters are right is another issue, but it is interesting to consider
how they arrive at their conclusions and the specific form they think future organizations will take.
As you will see, Drucker essentially proposes a technology explanation: future organizations will look
more like large symphony orchestras than the traditional pyramid -shaped corporate bureaucracies
because the typical organization will have become information based.
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1 Organizational effectiveness

2 Learning organizations

3 Cost - benefit analysis

4 Cause and effect

1. Equity is:
1) Employees should be treated nicely
2) Employees should feel they are being treated equally and fairly.
3) Employees should be paid fairly
4) Employees should be promoted systema cally.
2. Remunera on is that each employee:
1) Should be paid compared to other employees
2) Should receive compensa on in accordance with a general formula.
3) Should be paid fairly.
4) Should be rewarded fairly.
3. A management book is about:
1) How to treat employees

2) Management theories

3) Division of work

4) Ge ng the job done

4. An organiza on is a:
l) Social system

2) Social en ty

3) Prot making system

4) Non prot making system.

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5. Organiza onal behavior is:

1) A discipline for managing people.
2) The micro approach to organiza ons.
3) The macro approach to organiza on.
4) An approach for trea ng people
6. A goal is:
1) A management idea.
2) A concept which is desirable.
3) A purpose which is not obtainable.
4) An objec ve or purpose to be a ained.
7. Deni on is a:
1) Statement which does not need to be claried.
2) Statement of iden ty of meaning.
3) Statement which needs to be clarified.
4) Statement known to everybody.
8. You can best assure new product success by:
1) Developing methods to achieve minimum cost produc on.
2) Giving R&D department a free hand.
3) Developing adver sing campaign to educate the customer.
4) Incorpora ng marke ng ideas in new product decision processes.
9. A problem refers to:
1) Customer decision
3) Customer power

2) Customer orienta on
4) A devia on from a standard or an expecta on.

10. A manager is responsible for:

1) Planning, organizing, direc ng, and coordina ng
2) Making the organiza on successful
3) Ge ng the job done
4) Making the organiza on sustainable

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