a. Why do you think organizations feel pressure to grow? How do you think the companies described in the chapter’s Book Mark, Small Giants, resist that pressure?
b. Describe the three bases of authority identified by Weber. Is it possible for each of these types of authority to function at the same time within an organization? Discuss.
c. Look through several recent issues of a business magazine such as Fortune, Business week, or Fast Company and Find examples of two companies that are using approaches to busting bureaucracy. Discuss the techniques these companies are applying.
d. In writing about types of control, William Ouchi said, “The Market is like the trout and the Clan like the salmon, each a beautiful highly specialized species which requires uncommon conditions for its survival. In comparison, the bureaucratic method of control is the catfish-clumsy, ugly, but able to live in the widest range of environment and ultimately, the dominant species, “Discuss what Ouchi meant with that analogy.
e. Government organizations often seem more bureaucratic than for-profit organizations. Could this partly be the result if the type of control used in government organizations? Explain.