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Assignment is for the subject foundation of management, answers should be done by reading chapters which are mentioned in assignment requirement.
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?
(Emerging Organisational Forms: Beyond Fordism to support your answer)
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