Using the Multi-Contingency Model

1) What is the multi-contingency model, what are its parts? 2) How is task uncertainty related to information-processing needs/demands? 3) How do complexity and uncertainty relate to information-processing needs? Where do complexity and uncertainty come from? 4) What are the strategies to balance information-processing needs/demands and capacity? What are slack resources, and how are they involved? 5) What are efficiency and effectiveness? How do you obtain a balance between efficiency and effectiveness?

1) What is the multi-contingency model, what are its parts? 2) How is task uncertainty related to information-processing needs/demands? 3) How do complexity and uncertainty relate to information-processing needs? Where do complexity and uncertainty come from? 4) What are the strategies to balance information-processing needs/demands and capacity? What are slack resources, and how are they involved? 5) What are efficiency and effectiveness? How do you obtain a balance between efficiency and effectiveness? 1) Name and define each of the self-organizing organizational forms. 2) Are horizontal and vertical differentiation each usually high or low, in these self-organizing organizations? 3) What are contracts? How are they related to coordination? 4) What are external agreements? What are agreements for external activities, versus agreements for external people? 5) What are all of the types of contracting (in the section on 'contracting examples')? What are each of their characteristics; what do they each look like