Referencing Styles : Harvard
Description of Task
Please answer all the following questions based on Weeks 2, 3, 4 and 5 and submit your
answers through Turnitin by Tuesday 2 August 5:00 pm.
Answers to each question should be around 250-300 words.
You are REQUIRED to use the textbook and relevant journal articles to support your
answers (2 to 3 references per question including the textbook)
1. On page 41 there is a quote from Bendix that defines "managerial ideology." Dissect
the meaning of this quote and state the meaning of managerial ideology in your
own words (as if you were explaining it to someone else). Which of Morgan's
metaphors is most closely associated with this concept? (Please have a look at
chapter 3: The rise of the factory system to support your answer)
2. Rational-bureaucratic organizations are supposed to develop the best means to
achieve their goals. Based on your reading of Chapter 5 (pg. 56), what would you
say are some of the obstacles to making the "best" decisions about ways to reach a
goal or solve a problem? Do some organizations have a more difficult time with this
than others? What kinds of goals or problems do they deal with? (Please have a
look at chapter 5: Bureaucracy, Rationalisation and Organisation theory to
support your answer)
3. Do you think the term used by Barnard -- "common moral purpose" (pg. 103) -- is a
good way to describe what happens in work organizations? Why or why not?
(Please have a look at chapter 4: The Human Organisation to support your answer)
4. The transformation of organizational forms has given rise to a variety of paradoxical
demands. For example, organizations want to achieve both economies of scale and
economies of scope; they want to specialize yet be flexible. What do each of these
separate demands mean for organizing and managing? Why they all are desired?
How can they peacefully co-exist? (Please have a look at Chapter 6 from page 121
onwards: Emerging Organisational Forms: Beyond Fordism to support your
answer)