Understanding And Managing Public Organizations 6th Edition Hal G. Rainey, Sergio Fernandez, Deanna Malatesta - Solutions

What are the different ways that culture is communicated?LO.1
What methods and strategies are suggested for leading cultural development?LO.1
Explain leadership styles identified by Hersey and Blanchard. What is their model of situational leadership?LO.1
What actions can leaders take to change the organizational culture?LO.1
Discuss transformational and charismatic leadership styles. Do you think these leadership styles should depend on the organizational culture?LO.1
According to the path-goal theory of leadership, on what should the style of leadership depend?LO.1
How would you compare transformational behaviors and transactional behaviors?LO.1
As a leader, how would you direct your organization that is undergoing significant change? In your answer recall the discussion on the determinants and consequences of job satisfaction in Chapter 10.LO.1
What is the nature of attribution models of leadership? What do they help to explain? What don’t they explain?LO.1
What leadership styles are proposed by Robert House? In what ways does House suggest leadership can affect the motivation and performance of an organization?LO.1
How would you describe the concepts of role conflict and ambiguity and how they relate to an employee’s level of motivation?LO.1
What does the research reveal about the performance of employees hired under an affirmative action plan?LO.1
What does the research have to say about government employees and their general attitudes toward pay, security, benefits, and challenges of work? Does the same hold for employees of for-profit organizations?LO.1
Do research results indicate that public employees show lower levels of motivation and innovativeness than private sector employees?LO.1
What do research findings tell us about motives and incentives in public organizations concerning such matters as money, security, and other motives?LO.1
What does the research say about the value of intrinsic incentives for employees at lower salary levels compared to their supervisors?LO.1
What do research results indicate about incentives and rewards in public organizations?LO.1
What is job satisfaction and what determines if an individual is satisfied with a job? What are the consequences of job satisfaction?LO.1
How would you define and describe motivation-related work attitudes?LO.1
How does Anthony Downs classify managers with regard to their perceptions of the public interest? How does this perception change how managers perceive their role within the organization?LO.1
What do some economists, such as Anthony Downs and William Niskanen, claim about motives and incentives in public organizations? What is public service motivation? How does Perry define and measure it? Do you consider this an adequate definition and measure?LO.1
What is the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic incentives? Provide examples of both in the context of place of work (or your motivation to perform well at school).LO.1
What have been some of the major efforts to specify human needs and values? You do not have to describe them or remember them in detail, but what are some of the most interesting and important points about them? Are they helpful to you as a leader and manager?LO.1
How would you describe the concepts of role conflict and ambiguity and how they relate to an employee’s level of motivation?LO.1
What does the research reveal about the performance of employees hired under an affirmative action plan?LO.1
What does the research have to say about government employees and their general attitudes toward pay, security, benefits, and challenges of work? Does the same hold for employees of for-profit organizations?LO.1
Do research results indicate that public employees show lower levels of motivation and innovativeness than private sector employees?LO.1
What do research findings tell us about motives and incentives in public organizations concerning such matters as money, security, and other motives?LO.1
What does the research say about the value of intrinsic incentives for employees at lower salary levels compared to their supervisors?LO.1
What do research results indicate about incentives and rewards in public organizations?LO.1
What is job satisfaction and what determines if an individual is satisfied with a job? What are the consequences of job satisfaction?LO.1
How would you define and describe motivation-related work attitudes?LO.1
How does Anthony Downs classify managers with regard to their perceptions of the public interest? How does this perception change how managers perceive their role within the organization?LO.1
What do some economists, such as Anthony Downs and William Niskanen, claim about motives and incentives in public organizations? What is public service motivation? How does Perry define and measure it? Do you consider this an adequate definition and measure?LO.1
What is the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic incentives? Provide examples of both in the context of place of work (or your motivation to perform well at school).LO.1
What have been some of the major efforts to specify human needs and values? You do not have to describe them or remember them in detail, but what are some of the most interesting and important points about them? Are they helpful to you as a leader and manager?LO.1
Is motivation the only determinant of an individual’s performance? What other factors does the research suggest are important?LO.1
What questions/issues does self-determination theory raise about the adoption of performance-related pay in the public sector?LO.1
What does research prescribe for managers aiming to increase self-efficacy and enhance motivation?LO.1
In governments at all levels in the US and other nations, the problem of attracting, keeping, and motivating good employees poses a serious challenge. A major contemporary concern focuses on the impending retirements of baby boomers in the US and similarly aging managers and employees in other
What are some of the assertions about the context for motivation in public organizations? How valid and accurate are these assertions, in your view?LO.1
A hammer is not the right tool for all of the carpenter’s tasks. Similarly, different motivation theories are better suited for addressing some questions and not others. Can you identify an important motivational challenge in public management and discuss theoretical frameworks suited to that
How have items from expectancy theory been used to develop proxy measures for work motivation?LO.1
How would you describe three of the methods often used in organizations to enhance motivation?LO.1
Compare the process theories of motivation. How are they alike and different? Are they complementary or contradictory? Explain.LO.1
Motivation is based on individual needs, values, motives, and incentives. What do these concepts mean?LO.1
How have people tried to measure motivation? What difficulties are encountered in measuring?LO.1
What is motivation? What is the origin of the term?LO.1
Are there stereotypes about motivation of public employees? What are they? Do you think they are true?LO.1
How do different levels of uncertainty affect the organizational structure? Provide real-life examples with your explanation.LO.1
In 1967, Thompson described categorized task interdependencies as pooled, sequential, and reciprocal. However, as Foss (2020, p. 272) points out, “to some extent interdependencies are choice variables; for instance, some tasks that naturally involve reciprocal interdependencies can be made more
How would you explain the potential impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on organizational design, specifically on recommendations for differentiation and integration?Foss, Nicolai J. (2020). The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on firms’ organizational designs. Journal of Management
According to mainstream organization theory some factors may influence organizational structure more than the private public status. What are these factors?LO.1
What do we know about structural differences between public and private organizations?LO.1
Mintzberg suggests linking operations laterally. What purpose does this serve and what means are available?LO.1
How would you describe the usefulness of three IT applications used in organizational decision-making?LO.1
What do organization theorists mean by technology?LO.1
What major design alternatives were proposed by Galbraith?LO.1
What dimensions have been used to describe an organization’s structure?LO.1
What is the macrostructure of public organizations?LO.1
What are the design parameters that Mintzberg describes, and what are the types of organizations in his typology?LO.1
What are the design strategies that Galbraith describes?LO.1
How would you explain the nature of reforms implemented by the Internal Revenue System in 2000 and 2001? What was the objective?LO.1
Applying the claims associated with resource dependence, what advice would you offer a public organization contracting officer about sole-sourcing. Explain.LO.1
How do you explain the relationship between substitutability and power?LO.1
What advice does the literature offer for creating, sustaining, and concentrating power in organizations?LO.1
What does the research indicate regarding the relationship between employee empowerment and performance? In what ways do effects depend on the position of the employee?LO.1
French and Raven provide five types or forms of power. On what is their classification based? What are the effects of these types of power? What are these classifications and how is power attained?LO.1
What assumptions underlie rational decision-making theories?LO.1
In what ways are rational decision-making processes similar to the principles of scientific management?LO.1
How does the concept of power relate to dependency?LO.1
Can you describe some examples of how external power and politics influence internal power and politics?LO.1
Recent research has illuminated some of the reasons that policymakers might accept and/or impose administrative burdens. What are they? What are some of the consequences of this acceptance?LO.1
How would you describe the findings of at least one important piece of research on achieving high-performance in public organizations? What are its implications for the practice of public management?LO.1
What suggestions have researchers provided for measuring the effectiveness of networks?LO.1
How can managers avoid the pitfall of surrogation in the design and implementation of a performance management system?LO.1
In what ways are the concepts of goal displacement and surrogation similar? In what ways are they different?LO.1
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (BTF; Cyert & March, 1963) is one of the most significant management books of all time. Why is this the case? Explain and describe a specific influence the theory has on research on organizations.LO.1
How would you describe the roles of goal alignment, information verifiability, and the distribution of risk in inter-organizational relationships? Make sure to include the main scholars, both seminal and current, associated with the literature.LO.1
What is performance-based budgeting?LO.1
Is there anything distinctive about the goals of public organizations?LO.1
Goal approach to assessing organizational effectivenessSystems resource approachParticipant-satisfaction modelHuman resource approachStakeholder approachCompeting values approachLO.1
What are the uses, strengths, and weaknesses of the following approaches to organizational effectiveness?LO.1
What is the difference between organizational efficiency and effectiveness? What dimensions factor into effectiveness?LO.1
What is the difference between official and operative goals and what is the importance of this distinction?LO.1
What is an organizational mission?LO.1
What is an organizational goal and in what ways is it important?LO.1
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and recent incidents of police brutality illuminate race and inequality issues that have plagued America for many decades. Over time the policy community has proposed various ways to address these issues. Yet it is clear that these issues are getting more
What is a policy instrument and how is it used LO.1
What key authors are associated with the role of interest groups and other main actors involved in the policy process?LO.1
What key authors are associated with literature on the policy process?LO.1
What would you call two theories of the policy process? Please describe.LO.1
Describe how the following entities can influence public managers and public organizations. What formal and informal authority do they have that enables them to exert such influence?a. Public opinionb. The mediac. Interest groups, clients, and constituentsd. Legislative bodiese. Chief executivef.
Arjen Boin and his colleagues challenge the idea that organizational adaptation always matters to organizational survival. What is the basis for their claim? What implications might their research have to a public manger attempting to overcome organizational turbulence?LO.1
How would you compare the role of the manager and the role of the environment from the perspectives of institutional theory and population ecology?LO.1
How would you compare the theories of resource dependence and transaction cost economics in terms of focal questions, assumptions, and units of analysis?LO.1
What are competence and responsiveness values, and what are their implications for public management?LO.1
How do general values and institutions of the political economy, such as provision of the US Constitution, influence management and organizations in government?LO.1
What are the important components and dimensions of the political and economic environments of public organizations?LO.1
What general effects does uncertainty have on the organization?LO.1

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