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Research consists of the establishment of rules and regulations, usually written, that govern the work activities of an agency's personnel.

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The hierarchical structure of a bureaucracy forces official communication to occur ___________?

A) Horizontally
B) Vertically
C) Diagonally
D) None of the above

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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What are the model(s) of an organization?

Job design restructures tasks to allow staff to fulfill organizational challenges and responsibilities.

A _________ statement is portrayed by the organizations' responsibility to clients, its ideology, values, and operating principles.

Based on Bolman and Deal (2003) there are four organization frames: structural frame, human resource frame, political frame and symbolic frame.

Communication within an organic organization tends to be?

The ________ process of receiving and allocating funds in order to operate and achieve its mission.

This dimension of an organizational structure requires that all subordinates report to a supervisor?

A structured organization attains their organizational goals by ensuring that its members follow the required guidelines in order to achieve its purpose.

________ and ___________ are often considered or identified as policies and procedures.

What makes up the organization's mission, policies, procedures, and also forms a hierarchy that dictates the purpose of the organization?

What are some of the key assumptions underlying structural frame?

An example of a mechanistic organization is?

In correctional facilities there is not a formal structure because inmates contribute to the order maintenance goal of prisons.

Specialization suggests that formalization has a significant positive impact on correctional officers' job satisfaction and commitment to the organization.

Within an organic organization tasks are not specialized and any member of the agency may have the expertise or knowledge to take on a variety of tasks.

This informal communication is based on rumors among organizational members?

The need for ___________ has also resulted in simplifying sentencing decisions with legislated sentencing guidelines that judges are required to follow.

Task specialization is the process of dividing the work into a number of smaller tasks.