Deck 5: The Human Dimension of Organization

Question 1

Define organizational culture.Give an example of at least one specific aspect of culture.

Answer 1

Organizational culture is the norms,values,and beliefs that guide an organization.An example is the bell schedule that is used by the school; another is the belief that all children are able to learn the curriculum.

Question 2

Arthur Blumberg noted that it is useful to think of administration as a/an _______ than as a/an __________.

A)practice; art.
B)craft; science.
C)career; position.
D)structured theory; practical theory.
E)instructional responsibility; management responsibility.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Loosely coupled systems can best be described as:

A)organizations that have subsystems that are related to one another,but each subsystem maintains its own identity.
B)organizations that have many subsystems that have their own goals,unrelated to overall organization goals.
C)organizations that have a main office much like a school district administrative office)with satellite offices much like individual schools)that have their own vision and mission.
D)All of the above.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The move from logico-positivist assumptions about schools can be described best by which of the following?

A)A move toward qualitative research methods.
B)A focus on building human capital.
C)Defining organizations in terms of the people who populate them.
D)All of the above.

Question 5

Define human capital and give one specific example of what a principal can do to increase human capital.

Question 6

Define the term loosely coupled systems and give a specific example of how this concept is used to understand school organizations.

Question 7

List two different type of examples of potential effects of principal abuse in what Joseph and Jo Blase call the "Dark Side of Leadership".