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Small Groups, Formal Organizations, and Communities MCQ

Small Groups, Formal Organizations, and Communities MCQ

1. Territorial community is based on ________.

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Correct Answer: Geography

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2. A system perspective on organizations builds the fundamental principle that the organization is in constant interaction with its multiple environments—social, political, economic, cultural, technological—and must be able to adapt to environmental change.

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Correct Answer: True

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3. Focuses on the small group as a place where symbols are created, exchanged, and interpreted is called

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Correct Answer: Symbolic Interaction Theory

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4. Status Characteristics and Expectation States Theory describes a basic group process that proposes that the influence and participation of group members during initial _______are related to their status and to expectations others hold about their ability to help the group accomplish tasks.

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Correct Answer: Interactions

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5. In status characteristics and expectation states theory, any characteristics that are evaluated in the broader society to be associated with competence.

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Correct Answer: True

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6. Two or more people who interact with each other because of shared interests, goals, experiences, and needs is called

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Correct Answer: Small group

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7. Sense of community describes the perception of similarity with others, an acknowledged interdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this _______ by giving to or doing for others what one expects from them, or the feeling that one is part of a larger, dependable and stable structure.

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Correct Answer: Interdependence

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8. A self-categorization theory explains the small groups that propose in the process of social identity development, one comes to divide the world into in-groups (those to which one belongs) and out-groups (those to which one does not belong) and to be biased toward in-groups.

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Correct Answer: True

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9. A community based on voluntary association rather than _______ is called a relational community.

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Correct Answer: Geography

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10. A perspective that views the formal organization as a goal-directed, purposefully designed machine that maximizes _______ and effectiveness is called Rational Perspective on Organizations

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Correct Answer: Efficiency

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11. Which theory Focuses on the relationship between emotional unconscious processes and the rational processes of interpersonal communication in the group?

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Correct Answer: Psychodynamic Theory

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12. The expectations that group members have of other group members in terms of how they will act or ______in the group or how well they will perform a task is called performance expectations.

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Correct Answer: Behave

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13. The idea that individuals participate in multiple communities and consequently have multiple senses of community is called

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Correct Answer: Multiple Psychological Senses of Community (MPSOC)

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14. Interactional/Interpretive perspective that sees formal organizations as social constructions of reality, providing members with a sense of connection and meaning and reflecting the worldviews of the creators.

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Correct Answer: True

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15. Group work Involves serving people’s needs by bringing them together in _______ groups.

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Correct Answer: Small

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16. Group Cohesiveness has the tendency of the group to stick together and be unified in pursuit of its objectives and the satisfaction of members’ emotional needs.

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Correct Answer: True

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17. A collectivity of people with a high degree of formal structure working together to meet common goals is called

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Correct Answer: Formal Organization

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18. Which theory focuses on power issues in small groups, who gets valued resources and how fairly they are perceived as being distributed ?

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Correct Answer: Exchange Theory

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19. A critical perspective on organizations explains that it sees organizations as instruments of _______ and domination, where conflicting interests are decided in favor of the most powerful members.

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Correct Answer: Exploitation

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20. People bound either by geography or by webs of communication, sharing common ties, and interacting with one another is called

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Correct Answer: Community

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21. Collective efficacy explains the capacity of community residents to achieve social control over the environment and to engage in collective action for the common good.

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Correct Answer: True

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22. A form of organization; considered by Max Weber to be the most efficient form of organization for goal accomplishment, based on formal rationality is called

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Correct Answer: Bureaucracy

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23. Community relationships that are outward looking and diverse and that link community members to assets and information across community boundaries is called

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Correct Answer: Bridging Social Capital

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24. Bonding Social Capital describes the _______ relationships that are inward-looking and tend to mobilize solidarity and in-group loyalty; they lead to exclusive identities and homogenous communities.

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Correct Answer: Community

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