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Groups we use as standards to evaluate ourselves are
reference groups
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Another name for an instrumental group leader
task-oriented leader
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Stanley Milgram's experiment was for
seeing what people were willing to do when ordered by an authority figure
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Solomon Asch's experiment was for
seeing conformity with peers
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Emile Durkheim argued that small groups help prevent ____ by standing as a buffer between the individual and the larger society.
Anomie
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5 characteristics of bureaucracies allow them to grow, endure and
reach their goals
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How do bosses feed into self-fulfilling sterotypes
They provide better info to people who have characteristics similar to theirs
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A leader who asks for everyone's input is a _____ leader
Democratic
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Max Weber: Bureaucracies have the following characteristics - Division of labor, written rules and regulations, _____, and impersonality and replace-ability.
Written communications and records
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4 ladies in the same office work on a project together and then start eating lunch every day. They are a
Clique: a cluster of people within a larger group
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A coworker whom you never see outside of work is a part of your
social network
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Example of the way a division of labor functions in a bureaucracy. (Bookstore)
An author asks a bookseller whether she can do a reading at the store, and the bookseller transfers the call to the events director.
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Alienation
Marx believed workers did not identify with the product of their labor because they participate in only a small part of the production process.
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Lippitt and White found that boys in groups who had ____ leaders were more likely to ____
democratic, act friendly and look to one another for mutual approval
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Standardized shopping malls, package tourism and short, non-analytical news stories are some examples of _____
McDonaldization of society
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Georg Simmel would agree with:
as a small group grows larger, relationships become more intense and intimate.
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according to Irving Janis, people participating in groupthink limit _____, resulting in a narrow view of the issue.
Additional points of view
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Why is hidden corporate culture considered 'hidden'?
No one in the workplace is conscious of its existence.
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