Organızatıonal Behavıor

Yanıt Açıklaması: Too much red tape is an idiom, which has been frequently used to denote unnecessary paperwork in organizations. Managers must take measures to protect large and old organizations from negative consequences of “too much red tape”.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Functional Outcomes Improve the quality of decisions. Support creative thinking. Help to recognize dysfunctional processes or functions. Eliminate group-thinking and predispose alternative ways/solutions. Dysfunctional Outcomes Slow down the pace of decision making. Damage social relations and organizational trust. Decrease organizational commitment. Impair individual/group performance.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Weber named this ideal type of organization as “bureaucracy” and he defined basic features of bureaucratic forms. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Path-goal Theory is about how leaders motivate followers to accomplish  their goals. Leaders use their leadership style to meet followers’ motivational needs. They improve attainment of followers goals by disseminating necessary information and increasing the incentives in the work environment. The correct answer is D.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In this study, Fiedler developed the least-preferred co-worker (LPC) scale to determine the type of leadership style that fits various situations. With the help of LPC, it is determined that people are “task-oriented” or “relationship oriented”.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The task-oriented leader is important and crucial in favorable and highly unfavorable situations. They are more concerned with the task than with their interpersonal relations. In favorable situations everyone trusts and believes each other, the task is clear and the leader has power, the group is ready to be directed so all that is needed for a group to be managed, provide direction and say what to do. Likewise in unfavorable situations, because of poor member relations and unstructured tasks, the strong leader takes charge and makes the decisions that need to be made to accomplish the task asking for input.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Achievement-oriented leadership means encouraging subordinates to reach the highest performance by settings clear and challenging goals. This leader behaviour is emphasized on excellent performance and improvement over current performance. The achievement-oriented leader also shows a high degree of confidence and assists followers that are capable of establishing and accomplishing challenging goals.